PERC’s Sahil Jai Dutta is joined by Dr Aled Davies (Oxford University) to discuss the City of London and Social Democracy. He is the author of The City of London and Social Democracy: The political economy of finance in Britain, 1959-1979, (Oxford University Press, 2017). The conversation spans across the topics of British industrial decline, the Labour party’s approach to economic policy, and whether the material conditions for social democracy no longer exist.

Research discussed:

Davies [2017] – The City of London and Social Democracy: the political economy of finance in Britain, 1959-1979

Merrick [2020] – Gilding post-war Britain – Review of David Edgerton’s Rise and Fall of the British Nation

Edgerton [2018] – The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History