This is a modern Christmas, so eat, drink and forget about the poor and the needy - Comment - Voices - The Independent

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Mariana Mazzucato, a professor of economics and innovation at Sussex University has just published a vital, incontestable new book, The Entrepreneurial State, debunking private vs public sector myths. She makes the case for a bigger and smarter state which would benefit everyone, including governments and business. I fear we will never have that again. Instead, as she points out, people have got used to the idea that social welfare should be "relentlessly trimmed" while "corporate welfare grown inexorably", by which she means tax breaks and deregulation.

---SPSmith