S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led to a better kind of capitalism – if you think prosperity being broadly shared is a good thing.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Eric Rauchway and Brad DeLong. Thanks to the Studs Terkel Archive at WFMT. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
0:04.8	unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New
0:09.2	Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers,
0:11.7	Gilani Cobb on race and justice,
0:14.0	Jill Lepore on American history,
0:16.0	Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on culture,
0:19.0	Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:22.0	To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news,
0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.5	The phrase economic freedom, what does that mean to you personally?
0:36.0	Not being reliant on a job I hate to be able to eat and exist. I don't think about it. Now that you bring it up, I'm thinking
0:48.4	about it for the first time and I feel like, okay, well, yeah, I already am free economically.
0:56.0	Um, economic freedom. I think that looks like a social political system that supports people's basic needs.
1:04.7	I don't like to talk about that, but maybe like I know I will be like more free like
1:10.8	when I get the inheritance of my parents.
1:14.0	Having enough money to disappear.
1:16.0	A lot of people want money to be seen,
1:18.0	but I wanted to go off the grid
1:20.0	and just control my businesses from like a laptop and a place where you need a helicopter or a boat to get to.
1:27.0	Economic freedom to me means I don't have to worry about my rent for the next month.
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