The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy

In this final episode of their series for The Economics Show, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman consider listeners’ questions and comments ranging from a critique of globalisation, increasing inequality and plutocracy, the global appetite for US federal debt, China’s economic future and much more.

Paul’s cultural coda:

Martin’s cultural coda:

Read Martin’s column:
https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf

Subscribe to Paul’s substack:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/

Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Tom Hannen is the video editor. Sound design by Breen Turner. Original music by Breen Turner.

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