As we begin to emerge slowly and nervously from lockdown, many people are asking whether this moment of collective trauma could become an opportunity for national renewal. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
But the collapse in economic output has torn through countries’ finances.
Tough choices loom. Choices which could set the tone of our politics and society for the next decade at least. So which way should we jump?
We’re joined from the US by the economic historian and author, Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and Stephanie Kelton, a professor of economics at Stony Brook University who’s advised Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, as well as the progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s now advising Joe Biden’s campaign.
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