Martin Wolf on how to change one's mind
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, Lilah talks to Martin Wolf about having the confidence to change your mind. Martin is our chief economics commentator and one of the most influential economics journalists in the world. He reflects on how he forms a worldview, and how his opinions have shifted over the past half-century. Then, we hear about the 'gentle parenting' craze on Instagram from Washington correspondent Courtney Weaver. There are no punishments, no bribes, and it encourages your child to have big feelings. But is it asking too much of parents?
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Links and mentions from the episode:
–Martin’s upcoming book is called The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305263/the-crisis-of-democratic-capitalism-by-wolf-martin/9780241303412
–Martin’s most recent column, ‘Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one’: https://on.ft.com/3ciWO1m
–Martin’s economics book picks for the summer: https://on.ft.com/3yHzuSo
–Courtney Weaver’s piece, ‘Inside gentle parenting’: https://on.ft.com/3APRpZS
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:11.4 | It's summer, and you know what that means. |
| 0:14.1 | It's time for a plymoth gin and tonic. |
| 0:16.9 | So grab yourself a glass and some ice. |
| 0:19.9 | Start with a pourer of plymoth gin, |
| 0:22.8 | which is distilled using a blend of seven botanicals. |
| 0:26.0 | Add in some tonic, |
| 0:28.2 | then finish with a slice of orange. |
| 0:31.6 | Now that is the perfect gin and tonic. |
| 0:34.9 | Plymoth gin distilled with care and craft in England since 1793. |
| 0:41.2 | I was thinking about that old adage. |
| 0:43.9 | If you're under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart. |
| 0:46.6 | If you're over 30 and not a conservative, you have no brain. |
| 0:50.8 | What do you think of it? |
| 0:52.4 | I would say that's an American way to deal with it. |
| 0:55.2 | Because in our sense, a liberal and a conservative are not opposed. |
| 1:00.4 | I would consider myself in many ways a liberal conservative. |
| 1:04.0 | I have found, though, if you look at these in the broad, |
| 1:10.4 | I probably ended up, as I said, very close to where I started. |
| 1:15.6 | So I've done a full circle of a kind. |
| 1:18.8 | That's Martin Wolfe, Chief Economics commentator at the Financial Times. |
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