Professor Mark Blyth Part 1

The first part of our conversation with Professor Mark Blyth of Brown University focusing on his perspectives on the politics and economics of Scottish independence.

Show Notes

Mark Blyth is Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance.
He's also the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs.
Mark's a political economist whose research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century: Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea:The Future of the Euro (with Matthias Matthijs): and Angrynomics(with Eric Lonergan). In this,the first part of his interview with us,we focus on his perspectives on Scottish independence and the hard discussions we need to have both within the movement,and with the Scottish people.

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