i think we should reverse the steep hierarchy of prestige among different forms of learning, including technical and vocational o institutions. These are wofully underfunded in relation to other forms the more protigious forms of higher education. We need to remember that most people do not have university degrees. So it's folly to create an economy that sets as a necessary condition for dignified work and a decent life a university degree that most people don't hav cold. And this could involve a range of policies on which people of different partisan and ideological persuasions might disagree. But we should be asking how to make life better for every one.
Freddie Sayers meets Michael Sandel.
Do we deserve what we have? Are the elites any better than the rest of us? Do the right people get to run the world?
One political philosopher who attempts to tackle these big questions is Professor Michael Sandel. A Harvard professor since the 1980s and world famous author of many bestselling books, including 'What Money Can't Buy', and most recently, 'The Tyranny of Merit', Sandel has made the case for overhauling Western neoliberalism. The alternative society Sandel suggests is more forgiving of failure and confers cultural status onto building community rather than capital.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Freddie Sayers, Sandel explores how elite institutions from the Ivy League to Wall Street have given us the wrong idea about who deserves power.
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