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The Hunger Games Economy
ART 1, LIFE 0
The popularity of Suzanne Collins’s series suggests it has caught something many Americans sense: This is not the best we can do.
Jedediah Purdy
Published
Nov. 29 2014
6:59AM EST
Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast
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