"We Have Capitalism for the Poor and Socialism for the Rich" - Mark Blyth

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Mark Blyth is a professor of international political economy at Brown University and co-author of Angrynomics. Support TRIGGERnometry: Paypal: https://bit.ly/2Tnz8yq https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	this is a show for instance kitchen on my trick. I'm Francis Foster.
0:08.0	I'm Constantine Kissin.
0:09.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:14.7	Our brilliant guest today is an economist and the co-author of a brilliant book that Francis
0:19.1	and I have just read and really enjoyed Angronomics.
0:21.9	Mark Blythe, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:24.0	It's wonderful to be with you.
0:25.0	I'm so sorry you couldn't find someone interesting and you got me instead.
0:28.0	Yeah, well, you do yourself for disservice me because as I said,
0:32.0	having read your book book I think our audience
0:34.0	who actually have been clamoring for us to get you on the show for some time are
0:38.2	going to enjoy this conversation but for anyone who hasn't been clamoring for us to get you on the show which is not many people just tell everybody a little bit about
0:46.2	who you are how are you where you are what has been the journey that leads you to be talking to two comedians on
0:51.5	YouTube all right short version of that to be talking to two comedians on YouTube.
0:54.6	All right, short version of that.
1:00.1	When I was 13 years old, that's on an episode of how sure it was Panorama.
1:07.0	And back in about 1981, and they set up a game show between two economists. They did this shit back then.
1:08.8	And one was like this old guy in a tweed jacket and looked like everybody's favorite old lefty professor.
1:14.3	And there was another bloke who was wearing the kind of spive suit of the era who was about 30.
1:19.3	And he was from the London Business School.
1:20.8	The other guy was Manchester.
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