Building Common Purpose with Sir Paul Collier

As we explore our season focusing on citizenship in the networked age, journalist Richard Sergay explores the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen in the digital era, the individual and community strengths inherent in healthy citizenship, and the threats to our future without it. Today’s conversation is with Sir Paul Collier, a professor of economics and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Professor Collier is a world-renowned economist and a best-selling author, including The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties, and his latest release, with John Kay, Greed is Dead: Politics After Individualism.

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Citizenship in a Networked Age
• Greed is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier and John Kay
• The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
• Mette Frederiksen
• The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
• Encyclopædia Britannica defining communitarianism

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