The Future of Dictatorship: A Discussion with Sergei Guriev
New Books in World Affairs
00:00
The Economics of a Successful Spend Dilemma
Can you have a successful spend dictatorship with a declining economy? Well, it's harder. When you run a law on cash you have to occasionally use limited targeted deniable repression. For economic growth they need educated creative classes. But these are the people who have torture education and understand how the world works. And for economic growth you need more of these people. On the other hand silencing them is harder.
Transcript
Play full episode
