Adam Tooze
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1,245 appearances
22 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Adam Tooze’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It didn't need to worry.
It would out-compete.
It would out-innovate.
It would rise to the top.
No stress.
Through the early 70s, that bargain works pretty well on balance.
Not, of course, for everyone in American society because of racism and inequality, but nevertheless,
standard of living go up, so you don't see that divide opening.
And it's really from the mid-70s that it breaks down.
And at that point, I think a kind of national mercantilism, Japan as the bad guy, merges with a social resentment, which is driven by the real stagnation, indeed deterioration of the standard of living of the American working class.
And you begin to get that hard hat coalition
these labor, populist, nationalist, protectionist forces gaining quite a lot of strength.
By the 90s, Buchanan and people like this can really begin to make a powerful case along these lines.
And he doesn't understand the economics, right?
Because if you were serious about Greenland's resources,
Anyone could have invested in Greenland.
America has a great treaty, 51, the wartime treaty renewed.
Those resources are not somehow lying fallow, hidden behind a protective wall of Danish anti-American nationalism that prevents good American businesses from... No, no, no.
It's just...
It's a weird, my personal favorite interpretation is it's the map of the game Risk.
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