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Worried about the meaning of existence? You might want to check out Raj Patel’s best-selling book The Value of Nothing. Its message about how we value — and misvalue — the world and ourselves charts a middle path toward a society in which our economic choices aren’t dominated by Big Brother or big corporations.
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