Against the rules: Inside the war on financial regulation

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Investment zones have been hailed by some politicians as the solution to our economic woes. But what are the risks of economic gated communities? By existing outside of the usual rules of the state, do they undermine democracy? Alex Andreou is joined by historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, to unpack why these zones are increasingly appearing across the globe and why politicians like Kwasi Kwarteng are so keen to back them. “London has come to see the presence of the super-wealthy as a sign of urban health.” “Thatcher’s biggest legacy wasn’t creating democratic free markets, but creating sites for wealth hoarding for non-democratic forms of capitalism.” Book Link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316685/crack-up-capitalism-by-slobodian-quinn/9780241460245 https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Audio production by Alex Rees. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:13.2	It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
1:18.1	The cultural theorist Mark Fisher of Cape Punk fame once wrote.
1:22.2	Well, it turns out that two might not be completely unrelated.
1:25.7	The end of capitalism might mean the end of the world, at least as we know it.
1:29.8	My guest today is a Canadian historian and professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College.
1:35.3	He has authored and edited several books, the latest of which is a handsome volume I have right here,
1:40.9	provocatively titled Crack Up Capitalism, Market Radicals and The Dream of a World
1:46.1	Without Democracy. Welcome to the bunker, Quinn Slobidian.
1:49.8	Happy to be here. Quinn, why crack up capitalism, first of all?
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