Discussing ANOTHER NOW with Joe Walker – The Jolly Swagman Podcast

The Triumph & Tragedy Of Capitalism – a conversation occasioned by my new book ANOTHER NOW: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
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Show notes

Selected links

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Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present , by Yanis Varoufakis
The Sovereignty of Good , by Iris Murdoch
‘Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox’, paper by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
‘The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits’, The New York Times article by Milton Friedman

Topics discussed

Utopia. 4:46
The Sovereignty of Good. 9:14
Has capitalism enabled people to pursue higher goods? 12:38
What is capitalism? 16:08
Monopolies. 23:19
The problem with capitalism. 28:54
Are workers robots or autonomous souls? 34:40
Is capitalism making us happier? 54:30
Milton Friedman’s 1970 article on profit maximisation. 1:02:41
What is Yanis’s alternative to capitalism? 1:09:12
Should change be brought about through revolution or incrementalism? 1:26:08