About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the establishment's strategies against right-wing populism and the differences between Western and Chinese economic models.

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the establishment’s self-defeating 'lawfare' strategy against rising right-wing populists like Marine Le Pen, and Nigel Farage, while debunking the myth that capitalism is synonymous with free markets by contrasting Western state-protected monopolies like SpaceX with China’s highly competitive, state-guided economic model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• populism
• lawfare
• capitalism
• free markets
• China's economy
• Western monopolies

Keywords

• populism
• lawfare
• capitalism
• free markets
• China
• SpaceX
• monopolies
• economy

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