The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)

Update: 2023-08-10

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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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