Introduction

This month we're asking, what's the future of capitalism? We're going to meet a pair of young academics whose recent research on the economic effects of tax cuts for the rich went viral. A best selling prize winning author who grew up under communism, but now lives in the u k, will tell us which political system is better. You'll also be hearing why the greatest social levelling experiment of the twentieth centuy, the russian revolution, failed to erase the middle classes despite brutal repression.