Episode Details

Kimberly Weir. Professor of International Relations at Northern Kentucky University, talks with international management consultant Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia about his latest book, The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicized World.

Topics Kimberly & Joe discuss include:

• Why business and politics are inseparable
• How the interaction between business and government is like football
• Policy regulation and deregulation as public goods
• Why living in Florida would be impossible without government subsidies
• Why so many corporations give China a pass on its authoritarian policies
• Why Harley Davidson workers voted to axe their own jobs
• Tony Chocoloney and the problem of moving away from slave labor chocolate
• The instability of the current tri-polar trade bloc system
• The reality that ‘no brand can remain apolitical for too long’
• Markets as essentially political constructs

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