i e thes privately held fortunes that where there's priority on individual or family control of the and the entity. Idont kno af few dug henward's really wonderful work on the nature of the ruling class, whi he wrote about in a lengthy jacobin article. In certain ways, actually, the cindof venture capital echoes this too. That i no, this emphasis on ontra pinerealism, on the political power of the founders and investors over the company.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
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Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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