In the second of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the way economic trends have fractured societies on both sides of the Atlantic and the jeopardy that poses to liberal democracies in Europe and America.
Paul Krugman’s Cultural Coda: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
Martin Wolf’s Cultural Coda: The Tariff Song by Dan Shore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eWtn6kWXAsQ&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange was produced by Sandra Kanthal and Mischa Frankl-Duval, and the broadcast engineer was Andrew Georgiades. The sound engineer was Breen Turner. Manuela Saragosa is the FT’s acting co-head of audio.
