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Gary Stevenson ‪@garyseconomics‬ speaks to Abby Innes about the experiences that formed his convictions, from the trading floor to his Mormon upbringing.

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Once Citibank's top trader, Gary Stevenson now campaigns to highlight wealth inequality. In 2021 he was one of 30 millionaires to sign an open letter calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to increase taxes on the rich. Join Gary Stevenson for an in-depth conversation on why the powerful often gain increasingly more power, and how we can restructure our economy and society to prevent this.

#economy #economics #inequality #mormonism

00:00 Introduction
00:17 The efficient-market hypothesis
02:06 Social mobility
03:26 Citibank
09:00 Mormonism

Gary Stevenson is a British economist, former financial trader, and YouTuber known for his economic analysis and activism against economic inequality. Interviewed by Abby Innes, an Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE. She is the author of Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye (Yale University Press, 2001) and Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

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