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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

How Free-Market Economists Got It Wrong

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Azeem Azhar and Binyamin Appelbaum discuss how a group of free-market economists managed to reshape our modern world. They promised growth and broad prosperity, but instead left us with fractured societies and weakened democracies. Appelbaum is the author of the new book, "The Economists’ Hour," a deep dive into the history of ideas that formed capitalism, as we know it.

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Hello, my name is Azim Azar and you're listening to the exponential view podcast this week I am delighted to be speaking with binium and applebaum

0:38.9

about the ideas that led to the free market revolution those ideas that have defined the last 50 years of business and even geopolitics.

0:48.0

This model of running the world now packages Carlota Perez and Mariana Matsukato.

1:03.0

One of my contentions is that we're running into the limits

1:05.2

of that particular way of conceiving business

1:07.2

that puts shareholders at the center of business life

1:10.6

at the cost of everything and everyone else around them and that way of

1:14.2

expanding the reach of the market into every walk of life.

1:18.6

While this free market highly anti-regulation, globalization, has been the flavor of those last 40 years. I'm not so sure

1:24.6

it's going to be on the roadmap for the next 20. These next years will be a swirling

1:28.4

maelstrom of change driven in part by exponential technologies but set against a backdrop of a global

1:33.8

decoupling, climate change and political disenchantment.

1:37.8

Well in his new book The Economist's Hour, Binneeman chronicles the birth of that

1:42.1

dominant less a fair economic thinking that marked the decade

1:45.0

since Ronald Reagan came to the power in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom.

1:50.0

Those ideas of supply side and monetarism.

1:52.8

This book is highly relevant to help us understand what's going on now and today

1:57.3

binumen and I will discuss the origins of those monetarist ideas,

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