Daniel Chandler on rehabilitating liberalism and the political implications of economic inequality

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Daniel Chandler joined this week’s episode of the UKICE (I Tell) podcast to talk to Professor Anand Menon about his new book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, what his top two policy recommendations for Keir Starmer would be and whether COVID has made radical change more achievable. ---- Daniel Chandler is an economist and philosopher based at LSE. His first book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, makes the case for a new progressive liberalism grounded in the ideas of the philosopher John Rawls, and was published by Penguin/Allen Lane in Spring 2023. Daniel has degrees in economics, philosophy and history from Cambridge and the LSE, and was awarded a Henry Fellowship at Harvard where he studied under Amartya Sen. He has worked in the British Government as a policy advisor in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and Deputy Prime Minister's Office, and as a researcher at think tanks including the Resolution Foundation and Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to this latest episode of the Eukis Itel podcast.
0:10.8	This week, I'm delighted to be joined in person, which makes me very happy, by Daniel Chandler,
0:16.1	who's an economist and philosopher based at a place called the LSE that I've never heard of before.
0:21.4	And we're here to discuss his new book, which is called Free and Equal, What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
0:27.6	Daniel, welcome.
0:28.6	Great.
0:29.0	Thanks to having me.
0:29.8	It's really nice to be here.
0:30.9	And can we just start with the basics?
0:32.8	Yes.
0:33.0	Do you want to give us the elevator pitch for the book?
0:36.1	Yes.
0:36.6	All right.
0:37.0	So the book is really trying to achieve three things.
0:40.4	The first is to reimagine liberalism or rehabilitate liberalism, I should say, as a progressive
0:45.6	public philosophy.
0:46.9	So, you know, I think liberalism has become a bit of a dirty word on both the left and the
0:51.2	right.
0:52.0	And I think that's because most people associate liberalism today
0:54.8	with neoliberalism, with the sort of politics of Thatcher and Reagan and the ideas of thinkers
1:00.0	like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek. And I think people are right to critique that kind of liberalism.
1:06.7	I think it's responsible for a lot of the problems that we face today. And I guess one aim of the book is really to show people that that's not the only kind of liberalism on offer,
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