Aeron Davis joins Politics Theory Other to discuss his new book, ‘Reckless Opportunists: Elites at the End of the Establishment’. We discussed the changing face of British elites, the self-destructive character of neoliberalism, and the risk averse nature of the UK business class.
Austerity
Susan Himmelweit – Gender and the Budget
In this episode, founding chair of the Women’s Budget Group Professor Susan Himmelweit outlines the importance of looking at the Budget and wider economic policy through the lens of gender – not just for women, […]
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Does economic isolationism work?
The war in Ukraine looks set to continue for a long time. A 90 minute high-level meeting between the two parties, mediated in Turkey, got nowhere today. Meanwhile, the west is imposing more and more […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Contradictions of Capitalism: Past and Present
The wellbeing of a capitalist society depends on the endless accumulation of privately owned capital. This requires a replacement of input-minimising by output-maximising rationality. One result is a fiscal crisis of the state, due to […]
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