Should We End Welfare Cold Turkey? Solid Ground #173 with Dr. Erik Lidström

About this episode

Dr. Erik Lidström discusses his views on welfare and societal issues based on his recent essay.

Dr Lidström's recently published essay: https://iea.org.uk/publications/evolutionary-economics/# Erik Lidström holds an MSc and a PhD in physics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an MBA from the Open University, UK. After conducting research at the ESRF in Grenoble, France, he entered the software industry in 2000. He has worked in Britain, France, Sweden, and Morocco, and now resides in Northern Sweden. He writes books and articles on political economy, political science, and other societal matters. Apart from an unrelated day job, he also works on renovating and extending his house.In English, he has published two books:Education Unchained – What it takes to restore schools and learning (2015), third edition in 2024. Recommended by Choice in 2016.Evolution and Social Order – How our Stone Age brain understands and misunderstands society (2025)Erik's substack: @purpendicular _____________________________________________________________________If you would like to contact me, my website is: https://theradicalcenterconsulting.com/ I am also on X @JLeslieElliott And if you appreciate this ongoing project and would like to support my continued work in this area you can chip in at…

People in this episode

Host: Leslie Elliott Boyce

Guest: Dr. Erik Lidström

Topics covered

• welfare
• political economy
• societal matters
• education
• social order

Keywords

• welfare
• political economy
• education
• society
• social order

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Uppsala University, Open University, ESRF, Choice

Books & works: Education Unchained – What it takes to restore schools and learning, Evolution and Social Order – How our Stone Age brain understands and misunderstands society

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