269 | Whose Work is it Anyway?

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David and Helen talk with Diane Coyle about what the pandemic has revealed about the changing nature of work.  Who is doing more of it?  Who is still getting paid for it?  Which jobs are not coming back?  Plus we explore the impact of the digital revolution on how we get rewarded for what we do and we ask whether the big tech firms can continue to hoover up so many of the rewards.  Is Jeff Bezos really worth it?

266 | Helen's History of Ideas

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David talks with Helen to get her take on the history of ideas - both what's there and what's missing.  Why start with Hobbes?  What can we learn from the Federalist Papers?  Where's Nietzsche?  Plus we talk about whether understanding where political ideas come from is liberating or limiting and we ask how many of them were just rationalisations for power.