Failure: by Arjun Appadurai and Neta Alexander, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019, viii + 145 pp., $49.95/£40 (cloth), $14.95/£12.99 (paper).

It is unfortunate that Appadurai and Alexander decided to limit the focus to the problems of "late capitalism", as they see it. I came to this book expecting not to like it, but with the hope that I would learn something of value about the nature of failure. Rather, Appadurai and Alexander instead use the phrase to mean a situation when a market system leads to an undesirable outcome. [Extracted from the article]