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The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)

The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth · Rhodes Center

August 10, 202333m 58s

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Show Notes

This is the first in a three-part series on Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, a book co-edited by Mark Blyth, Lucio Baccaro, and Jonas Pontusson. 

Using examples from around the world, the book offers a new understanding of what happens to our politics when growth slows down. In this episode, Mark grills his co-authors about how the book came to be, and the big questions that guided its creation. 

Guests on this episode:

  • Lucio Baccaro, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Geneva

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