Peace-Making and the Economic Earth: Owen Barfield on the Relation of Economy with International Politics

About this episode

The episode discusses Owen Barfield's insights on the relationship between economics and international politics as relevant today.

Ninety years ago, the writer Owen Barfield (1898-1997) had a short letter published in The Spectator, which it headlined “Nationalism and Economics”. The letter, about the reality of the world’s economic life and the failure of that reality to be reflected in relations between nation-states, repays attention in 2026. The states uppermost in our minds have changed. But the failure remains the same. The first episode of The Holdall in some time.

People in this episode

Host: Rory O'Connor

Topics covered

• economics
• nationalism
• international politics
• history
• society

Keywords

• Owen Barfield
• economics
• nationalism
• international relations
• The Spectator

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Spectator