When Capitalism Becomes Tyranny, with Sohrab Ahmari
Capitalisn't
University of Chicago Podcast Network
4.5 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In terms of having a highly unionized, more regulated capitalist system, yeah, I'm there with, I'm there with Jeremy and Liz Warren and the like. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Bethany McLean. |
| 0:14.6 | Did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's a good idea? |
| 0:19.8 | And I'm Luigi Zengalis. |
| 0:21.2 | We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor. |
| 0:26.7 | And this is Capital Isn't, a podcast about what is working in capitalism. |
| 0:30.7 | First of all, tell me, is there some society you know that doesn't run on greed? |
| 0:35.1 | And most importantly, what isn't? |
| 0:37.1 | We ought to do better by the people that get left behind. |
| 0:40.1 | I don't think we shouldn't kill the capital system in the process. |
| 0:43.8 | Today, the prevailing form of capitalism is neoliberalism. |
| 0:47.0 | I think people would define neoliberalism as a set of beliefs and policy recommendations |
| 0:51.9 | that emphasize the use of market mechanisms to solve |
| 0:55.0 | most of society's problems and needs. In recent year, neoliberalism has been under attack from both |
| 1:01.2 | the left and the right. And I have to say, while the left-wing criticism of neoliberalists tend |
| 1:06.2 | to repeat the criticism that the left had for a long time, the right-wing criticisms tend to be |
| 1:12.3 | a bit more novel, or at least more surprising to me, which doesn't mean necessarily |
| 1:16.4 | better, but more interesting, at least I want to understand them better. For this reason, |
| 1:20.7 | in recent past, we have interviewed Oren Cass and Patrick Denin, two conservative critics |
| 1:27.0 | of near-liberlis. I actually thought it were done. When I start reading, Cass and Patrick Denin. Two conservative critics of neoliberalists. |
| 1:28.4 | I actually thought what Dan when I start reading a book by Sora Bamari called Tyranny Inc. |
| 1:36.3 | I find this fascinating, this development of neoliberalism and market skepticism on the right. |
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