Grace Blakeley and Liam Byrne talk to Oliver Bullough

Is there any coming back from the ways in which capitalism and wealth inequality have shaped the world? Yes, argue economic thinker Grace Blakeley and former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne, but only if we rebuild instead of trying to fix broken systems. They discuss their ideas for radical and meaningful change with writer Oliver Bullough.

Blakeley is author of Vulture Capitalism, in which she takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crises are the result of the economic system we have built, which melds public and private power. Byrne’s The Inequality of Wealth puts forward five practical new ways to rebuild the old ideal of the wealth-owning democracy, drawing on conversations and debates with former prime ministers, presidents and policymakers around the world together with experts at the OECD, World Bank, and IMF.