How much of what we're seeing today is due to the emergence for generation of political leaders with no experience of full-time conflict and therefore little sense of fragility of human institutions? I think this is a very important question. What you say about the nature and quality of our representatives, our politicians, in other words, brings me neatly to my next question. Now, you start your book and we began this series by talking about your parents who fled the Nazis as refugees from Austria and the Netherlands respectively.
In this last episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the FT’s chief economics commentator sits down with the FT’s executive opinion editor, Jonathan Derbyshire, to give his concluding thoughts on the state of the world’s democracies. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, and his conversations in this series, they discuss what role citizens’ juries could play in rectifying some of what has gone wrong in the past couple of decades.
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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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