THE CASE FOR BIG CHANGE: and building the coalitions to make it happen
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In this episode
A big theme of the podcast has been the need for big change. We’re chatting to two people with really interesting perspectives on that. FT writer Martin Sandbu talks about why this is a moment that demands a transformation of our economy and what it could look like. Then Heather McGhee, one of the leading thinkers on the US left, talks about her new book on building coalitions for progressive change.
Plus documentary maker Jerry Rothwell on his new film The Reason I Jump.
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Guests
Martin Sandbu (@MESandbu), economics commentator at the FT and author of The Economics of Belonging
Heather McGhee (@hmcghee), former president of the Demos think tank and author of The Sum of Us
Jerry Rothwell (@jerry_rothwell), director of The Reason I Jump
More info
The Economics of Belonging
Martin Sandbu/FT: How the pandemic alters everything (Feb 2021)
Martin Sandbu/IMF: The post-pandemic brave new world (2020)
Martin Sandbu/FT: How to make capitalism work for all (Jul 2020)
The Sum of Us
FT: Activist Heather McGhee: ‘It doesn’t have to be like this!’ (May 2021)
Vox: The racial hoodwink (Mar 2021)
Heather McGhee/NYT: The way out of zero-sum thinking (Feb 2021)
Heather McGhee video: Racism has a cost for everyone (May 2020)
The Reason I Jump
The Guardian: The Reason I Jump (Jan 2021)
NYT: ‘The Reason I Jump’ Review (Jan 2021)
Jerry Rothwell: Naoki Higashida, Authorship and The Reason I Jump (Oct 2020)
The Reason I Jump film website
