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Feb 2023
24m 55s

How to fix our flawed democracies

Financial Times
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Gideon talks to Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, about his new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. They discuss why the post-war settlement between democratic governments and their people is no longer fit for purpose and what can be done to restore our faith in it.


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Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner.


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