A World to Win: Pandemic Political Economy w/ Sahil Dutta & Nick Taylor

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, Grace talks to Nick Taylor and Sahil Dutta, two of the co-authors behind Unprecedented?: How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy. They discuss the politics behind the economics of COVID—from debt to care to the labor market—and how the pandemic and current cost-of-living crises are likely to reshape the world going forward.

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of A World to Win. This week I am joined by Nick Taylor
0:18.6	and Sahil Dutta to discuss their book, Unprecedented Question Mark, How COVID-19 Revealed the
0:26.6	Politics of Our Economy. So we discuss the politics behind the economics of the COVID pandemic
0:33.9	from debt to care to the labour market and how the pandemic and the current cost of living
0:40.0	crises are likely to reshape the world and our politics moving forward. As always, a big thank you
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1:53.6	in all caps at checkout. Hello and welcome to another episode of a world to win. This week I'm here
2:05.8	with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor to talk about their book unprecedented. How COVID-19 revealed the
2:13.3	politics of our economy? It's a great book and we'll put a link for you to be able to purchase it
2:19.7	in the description. Let's start with the title guys. I want to know why you've gone with because it's
2:26.2	actually, I said unprecedented, but that's actually unprecedented. Why the question mark?
2:33.3	Yes, great question. Thank you very much for having us Grace. I'm glad that you spotted the
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