PERC director Will Davies is joined by Michelle Meagher to discuss her book 'Competition is Killing Us - How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet'. Michelle is a Senior Policy fellow at the UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society. She is the co-founder of the Inclusive Competition Forum and a UK and US-qualififed lawyer specialising in competition law and corporate governance.

Author of the book How Competition Is Killing Us.

PERC's Nick Taylor is joined by Dr Amy Horton (UCL) to discuss the political economy of care, the nature of financialization in the care system and prospects for resistance and alternatives to the status quo. Amy is the author of ‘Financialization and non-disposable women: Real estate, debt and labour in UK care homes’, which came out in 2019 in Environment and Planning: A. The conversation moves from a discussion of the interacting trends that have affected social care -  privatisation, austerity and financialization - to the specific models of financial ownership at play and the crucial role that labour plays in both enabling and limiting financialization in residential care, and finally to principles for imagining an alternative future for care that recognise its social and relational value.

PERC’s Sahil Jai Dutta is joined by Dr Aled Davies (Oxford University) to discuss the City of London and Social Democracy. He is the author of The City of London and Social Democracy: The political economy of finance in Britain, 1959-1979, (Oxford University Press, 2017). The conversation spans across the topics of British industrial decline, the Labour party's approach to economic policy, and whether the material conditions for social democracy no longer exist.

PERC’s Sahil Jai Dutta is joined by Dr Sandy Brian Hager (City, University of London) to discuss the political economy of the corporation. He is the author of the book Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State (2016) published by University of California Press. The conversation spans across the topics of ownership and the politics of public debt, the power of large banks in the US, and his most recent work exploring what drives long-term shifts in the stock markets in the ‘advanced’ economies.