Greed and Landownership Past, Present, Future
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The Scottish Clearances by Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh. The Farm, a new novel by Hector Abad is translated by Anne McLean The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College.
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| 1:30.3 | Hello, as John Steinbeck wrote In Of Mice and Men. |
| 1:34.3 | Just like heaven, everybody wants a little piece of land. |
| 1:38.3 | And we all know what he means. |
| 1:40.3 | Land, be it a farm, a valley, or London's Canary Wharf, 97 acres with 16 million square feet of office space, |
| 1:48.6 | and the sense of collective heritage and competition that inspires is at the heart of our programme today. |
| 1:55.5 | Hector Abad, the Colombian novelist, joins us to reflect on the nature of ownership |
| 1:59.9 | and how the history of a whole |
| 2:01.7 | country can be reflected in one mountainous farm. The economist Paul Collier has been dissecting the |
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