How Capitalism Makes You LESS Free | Grace Blakeley Meets Aaron Bastani

Common sense tells us that free-market economies maximise freedom and that planned economies, typically found under socialist governments, curtail it. But what if this is completely the wrong way around?

On this episode of Downstream Aaron is joined by economist and author Grace Blakeley to discuss Henry Ford, Boeing and the nature of democracy.

You can buy Grace’s latest book ‘Vulture Capitalism’ here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vulture...

00:00 Intro
03:43 Why I Wrote ‘Vulture Capitalism’
07:47 Myths About the State and Where They Come From
15.48 The Problem With Monopolies & Boeing
25:53 Henry Ford
38:36 Innovation Myths, Workers & Hierarchy
55:06 How do you Build a Democratic Society?
1:01:03 What Is ‘Unfreedom’?

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