SCOTONOMICS: Ep 39: Countering the Planned Capitalist Economy

How do we change the narrative of our economy from the idea that the UK Government is like a household? Or is it even worth it? Should we accept that common held belief and concentrate on winning other arguments? We discuss this and much more with Grace Blakeley.
We hear how over financialisation of the UK economy has weakened the entire economy and what damage has been done by 40 years of neoliberalism.
We discuss Grace's book: Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and her upcoming book which suggests that the modern economy is planned in much the same way as the centralist-planned Soviet economy. Only this time, in favour of global capital.
Grace also gives her thoughts on independence in Scotland suggesting that it is purely a matter for Scots.

[@wildalbalass4867]

Many thanks to all the team involved. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@neilhuggan]

Excellent there from Grace. The point about creating an alternative, easy to tell and easy to understand narrative is so very important. The current neoliberal narrative is so well embedded into the collective UK psyche that a simple message has to be developed which can compete on that level.

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Excellent show! 👏👏👏
Saor Alba

[@KG-lr2qw]

I disagree with her on the time it would take for people to get an understanding of government spending - Stephanie Kelton's TED talk is less than 15 mins, it isn't difficult, unless you're pretty hard of thinking