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Abby Innes goes in-depth into how neoliberalism has 'Sovietized' Britain, and the field of economics itself.

Is Keir Starmer a Brezhnev or a Khrushchev?

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In this IAI Studio interview, political economist and LSE associate professor Abby Innes argues that Britain’s governing model has more in common with the Soviet Union than many would care to admit. Drawing on her book Late Soviet Britain, Innes explores how the UK’s embrace of managerialism and economic determinism has produced a system that promises technical neutrality but delivers ideological rigidity.

Do we mistakenly treat economics as an exact science? Can a political system function when economic decisions are removed from democratic debate? And has Britain’s faith in market mechanisms created a new form of central planning?

#neoliberalism #economics #sovietunion #ukpolitics

Abby Innes is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute, London School of Economics. Her research focuses on state theory, post-communist transitions, and the political economy of the UK. She is the author of Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail.

Interviewed by Harry Carlisle at HowTheLightGetsIn London, in September 2024.

00:00 Introduction
00:33 How did you make the connection between the modern
British government and the Soviet Union?
05:06 Why has the field of economics been led so astray?
Why is there still such an appeal to utopianism?
11:27 Why does the Left have a blind spot to economic methodology?
16:17 Is there a way we can navigate past this methodological rabbit-hole?
23:43 Keir Starmer: is he a Brezhnev or a Khrushchev?

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