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"What we see is a situation where centrists […] have decided to disempower themselves, to disempower society, disempower the economy and to leave it to technocrats. And technocrats heads have become incredibly arrogant. They're running the world, basically." Ash Sarkar talks to economist Ann Pettifor about the ways money... show more

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