It’s the Economy, Stupid is a polemic about the perils of capitalism
This show is both a whistlestop tour of modern economics and Joe Sellman-Leava’s attempt to understand why he’s always broke.
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?
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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
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The man who bought everything
Masayoshi Son has amassed eye-popping wealth through relentless acquisition and unquenchable optimism.
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Why the assassination of Brian Thompson ignited American politics
The UnitedHealthcare CEO is seen as part of a supposedly tyrannical oligarchy.
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Donald Trump’s industrial revolution
Can this cabinet of oligarchs bring an end to the neoliberal era?
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The new Trumpian bargain
The president-elect’s team could restore a 19th-century Republicanism, with its blend of trade protectionism and internal laissez-faire.
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Why we need Arundhati Roy
It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty.…
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Fredric Jameson’s capitalist horror show
We still live in the postmodern landscape defined by the Marxist thinker, who died this month.
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The neoliberal battle for Ukraine’s reconstruction
The country’s postwar future is almost as riven as the war itself.
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The petit bourgeois insurrection
Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.
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The case for optimism
Britain can escape the age of economic anxiety if Labour is willing to ditch rules and embrace risk.
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Joseph Stiglitz: the UK’s tax system is “inexcusable”
The American economist on how neoliberalism put us on “the road to 21st-century fascism”.
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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After neoliberalism
Across the West, faith in liberal democracy is waning. We need a clear response to the new politics of grievance.
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How Thomas Piketty found politics
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
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The narcotopian dilemma
Why liberal societies are helpless in the face of the global illegal drugs trade.
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Conscious uncoupling
Can growth be detached from fossil fuels and made green?
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There’s nothing moderate about “centrism”
David Cameron and Rishi Sunak stand for a rampant market individualism that disregards the common good.
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Monster of the mainstream
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei embodies the zombie neoliberalism of the 1990s.
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