Jennifer and Jacques revisit the notion of class, which seems to have come back into fashion and is more relevant than ever. Similarly, critiques of capitalism are becoming more common in public discourse, along with escalating crises like growing inequality, environmental devastation, and the undermining of democratic processes by concentrated wealth.

References:

Wolfgang Streeck (2014) How will capitalism end?

Paul Mason (2015) Post-capitalism: A guide to our future

Wendy Brown (2015) Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s stealth revolution

Ross Gittins (2022) Better, not smaller government: confessions of an econocrat-watcher, Speech at ACT Economic Society Annual Dinner in Canberra

Andrew Leigh (2023) More than a board game: The painful hidden cost of monopolies,The New Daily, 5 January 2023