Mark Blyth - Politics and Economics Overlap

The transcript discusses the intrinsic link between economics and politics, emphasizing that political projects like Thatcherism and the Reagan era aimed to reshape economic identities and interests. It highlights the political and distributional implications of economic theories and critiques the tendency to overlook these aspects in economic studies. The speaker finds this oversight a compelling reason to study economics.

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