Within the second of this six-part sequence of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman focus on the way in which financial tendencies have fractured societies on each side of the Atlantic and the jeopardy that poses to liberal democracies in Europe and America.
Paul Krugman’s Cultural Coda: Let America Be America Once more by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
Martin Wolf’s Cultural Coda: The Tariff Music by Dan Shore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWtn6kWXAsQ&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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The Wolf-Krugman Change was produced by Sandra Kanthal and Mischa Frankl-Duval, and the printed engineer was Andrew Georgiades. The sound engineer was Breen Turner. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s performing co-head of audio.