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Paul Mason
Economics Editor at BBC Newsnight. Author of "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere" and the novel "Rare Earth". Also "Meltdown: The end of the age of greed" and "Live Working or Die Fighting: How the working class went global".
Economics Editor at BBC Newsnight. Author of "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere" and the novel "Rare Earth". Also "Meltdown: The end of the age of greed" and "Live Working or Die Fighting: How the working class went global".
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Economists at Barings produced this graph, comparing bread price rises during the run up to 1848, correlated against revolutionary outcome, with wheat prices in the run up to the Arab Spring. Source: private analysts note Feb 2011.

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