Is the right becoming liberal? | Deirdre McCloskey, Bim Afolami, Paul Mason
17Deirdre McCloskey, Bim Afolami and Paul Mason debate whether values of conservation, stability and order can be progressive.
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Conservation, stability, order: these were the traditional goals of the right. Yet in today's politics the right is more typically associated with liberating the economy, encouraging competition and advocating change.
Has the right in endorsing liberal economics forgotten its roots and is it hypocritical in claiming to be 'conservative'? Does the right need to reassert these core values? Or should the right give up any remaining attachment to tradition and rebrand itself as the party of change and growth?
Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, Bim Afolami, author and Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Deirdre McCloskey, and author and political commentator, Paul Mason discuss the past, present and future of conservatism. Hosted by distinguished historian, Rana Mitter.
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Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Deirdre McCloskey has been described as "a match for Thomas Piketty" by The Spectator.
Bim Afolami is a Conservative MP who was appointed parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Transport in 2018.
Paul Mason is a British author, commentator, and political journalist. Previously the Newsnight Business Editor, he became Economics Editor at Channel 4 News, where he reported on Europe's troubled economic crises, and the Greek Elections of 2015. He is now a freelance author and journalist.
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