Within the fifth of this six-part sequence of The Economics Present, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman talk about the way in which American politics is crashing towards each the guardrails of a steady, democratic system and the foundations and norms of the postwar financial order and the way this might jeopardise the significance of the US on the world stage.
Paul Krugman’s Cultural Coda:
Stephen Sondheim: “We had a great factor going”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbrbiM-slg&list=RDNTbrbiM-slg&start_radio=1
Martin Wolf’s Cultural Coda:
Jonas Kaufmann: Freiheit from Beethoven’s Fidelio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvfhmGsFMEo
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