#RedHacks - Economic journalism and the end of neoliberalism w/ Laurie Macfarlane
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Politics Theory Other
4.8 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Red Hacks, your favorite show about being a lefting journalist in a neoliberal world. |
| 0:23.0 | I am Joanna Romero, and you can follow me on all the socials at Joanna Ramiro, UK. |
| 0:28.4 | This is the fifth and last episode of the second season of Red Hacks, but you can and should continue listening to all the other episodes of our host Politics Theory Other, a podcast by Tribune |
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| 0:49.8 | For this episode, I once again resorted to the magic of technology, calling my guest in all the way from Scotland. |
| 0:57.3 | He is the economics editor at Open Democracy and a fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at the University, College London. |
| 1:04.3 | You might have also seen him commenting on all things housing, income distribution and systemic change in The Guardian, Sky News, and Tribune |
| 1:11.7 | magazine. |
| 1:12.7 | Laura McFarlane, welcome on Red Hacks. |
| 1:15.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:16.6 | So, I always like to start Red Hacks with that kind of introductory conversation over |
| 1:21.6 | how you got into journalism in the first place, and quite precisely in your case, into |
| 1:26.7 | economics journalism. I know you worked |
| 1:28.9 | at Neff, the New Economics Foundation, before you were at Open Democracy. So tell me your journey |
| 1:34.9 | into journalism. How did you land here? Yeah, I mean, I never really made a conscious decision to get |
| 1:40.9 | into journalism as such, or the media. It was kind of an accident that happened by |
| 1:45.1 | circumstance. As you said, my background is in economics. Historically, my kind of home has been |
| 1:50.9 | more in think tanks and academia. And I still have kind of one foot in that world. Although I've |
| 1:56.5 | always been someone who's been very critical of economics as a discipline and the profession, at least |
| 2:01.9 | as it exists in the mainstream form. So I ended up getting into the video world, really, |
| 2:09.1 | as I say by accident, I think it was back in 2016 or 17. I was leaving the Economics Foundation. |
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