Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on BandcampFacebook and the Free Music Archive.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

John Clarke is an Emeritus Professor at the Open University and has been a Recurrent Visting Professor at Central European University. He currently holds a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to work on the questions of “Brexit and Beyond”. His most recently published book is Critical Dialogues: Thinking Together in Turbulent Times, published by Policy Press in 2019, and distributed in North America by the University of Chicago Press.

Further details:
Open University
Academia.edu

EPISODE RESOURCES

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher
Zer0 Books

Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
by Olivier Blanchard and Daniel Leigh
IMF Working Papers

How the Chicago School changed the meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’
by Glory Liu
The Washington Post

The NHS Dismantled
by John Furse
London Review of Books

Constructions of Neoliberal Reason
by Jamie Peck
Oxford University Press

Introduction: Towards a global sociology of care and care work
by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz and Birgit Riegraf
in Current Sociology, Volume 66, Issue 4

The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
by Peter Linebaugh
University of California Press

A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
by Simon Fairlie
The Land

Feature Essay: Elinor Ostrom’s work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation
by Wyn Grant
London School of Economics

The GDP doesn’t tell the whole story about economic growth
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Boston Globe

The 2020 World Happiness Report
Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Deliberation and Non-Deliberative Communication
by Edana Beauvais
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Volume 16, Issue 1

Mikhail Bakhtin
Wikipedia

MORE BY JOHN CLARKE

Why Imagined Economies? in Imagined Economies, Real Fictions: New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
by Jessica Fischer and Gesa Stedman (eds.)
OAPEN

Re-imagining Space, Scale and Sovereignty: The United Kingdom and “Brexit” in The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux
by Donald M. Nonini and Ida Susser (eds.)
Routledge

Critical Dialogues: Thinking Together in Turbulent Times
Policy Press

A Sovereign People? Political Fantasy and Governmental Time in the Pursuit of Brexit in Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency
by Marius Guderjan, Hugh Mackay, and Gesa Stedman (eds.)
Bristol University Press

Developing a spatial social policy: taking stock and looking to the future in Towards a Spatial Social Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy
by Adam Whitworth (ed.)
Bristol University Press

Harmful Thoughts: Reimagining the coercive state? in Reimagining the State: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities
by Davina Cooper, Nikita Dhawan, and Janet Newman (eds.)
Routledge

Building the ‘Boris’ bloc: angry politics in turbulent times, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Volume 74

A sense of loss? Unsettled attachments in the current conjuncture, New Formations, Volume 96/97