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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Description: Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at being left behind, anger about de industrialization, anger at the arrogance and wealth of the elite. But what more can be said about the nature of that anger and the different aspects of it? In Angrynomics (Agenda Publishing, 2020) Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan address this question. Today I talked to Blyth, a professor of political economy at Brown University.Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC corresponden...