Is There Such A Thing As The Real Economy

On this week's edition of Novara Aaron Peters and James Butler discuss the idea of the 'real economy' as being independent from the supposedly 'unreal' financial economy. Does this binary still cohere with the observable workings of contemporary production in the 21st century?

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