Simon Johnson
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295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So what's the opportunities?
What's the risk?
How do you play your cards?
What cards do you have?
Within the European Union, for example, those are incredibly important.
I think of governance as being a long-term determinant of prosperity, and that definitely plays out over decades.
figures can offer you all kinds of things in the short run.
And you can also have booms, right?
You can have a few people with a lot of money and some ideas become extremely wealthy.
And there's a buzz around that.
And that may actually be not great for democracy, depending on how they
what kind of impact they want to have in the political sphere.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time in Russia in the 1990s.
I spent even more time in Ukraine, actually.
My sympathies are much more with Ukraine than with the Russians.
But I was in St.
Petersburg, actually, in 1991 when the attempted coup took place and then the Soviet Union fell apart.
And you're absolutely right that they didn't.
have a legacy or a history of institutions.
And then there was this idea, this strategy that massively backfired that you could somehow transfer assets to these oligarchs, actually, everyone started calling them oligarchs, and that would somehow strengthen democracy.
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