Mark Blyth & Sven Steinmo: Austerity, Dictators and Democracy

I hosted Mark Blyth, Brown University, and Sven Steinmo, University of Colorado Boulder (you remember Sven from his piece, Trump is not the Problem) to discuss their perspectives on austerity, democracy, dictators, protest, populism, knowledge economy, technology, advanced economies, and more! We dug deep into political dynamics in France, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, the United States, Israel, China, Italy, Turkey, etc. My friends in high finance will enjoy Mark Blyth's analysis!

Mark Blyth, is The William R. Rhodes ‘57 Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is someone who may have heard through his collaboration with Nicholas Nasim Taleb in their piece, The Black Swan of Cairo: How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous. Or maybe in one of Mark’s many books like Great Transformations, Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Angrynomics, The Future of the Euro, and more. His research focuses on how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary.

Find Mark Blyth on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MkBlyth

and Sven Steinmo on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SvenSteinmo

Thanks to Sven Steinmo for putting this together!

Watch the video version on YouTube here:

And look back at Sven Steinmo’s piece, Trump is not the Problem or his introduction to our platform.