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Join us for the latest in the FT’s Digital Dialogues: ‘The new social contract’, a week of daily online discussions bringing our recent FT series on this theme to life. FT editors and experts will assess the problems and potential solutions we will confront after the pandemic, covering everything from the future of democracy and the labour market to tax reform, corporate debt and millennial discontent.
The coronavirus crisis has exposed frailties in our economic and social model, highlighting the need to boost resilience – not just to short-term medical threats, but to the deeper problems that have long been ignored. It will require a rethink of economic arrangements: about pay and jobs, business and finance, and the role of the state.
Covid-19 is a global shock, but it may also be transformative for western democracies, particularly the US and UK – ushering in an upheaval of the 40-year “Thatcher-Reagan” consensus, which prioritised free markets and free trade. Little changed after the financial crisis beyond more regulation of banks – a passivity that helped lead to Trump, Brexit and the new age of nationalist populism. The same could happen again. But we could also be moving into an era of a much bigger state and a shake-up in the relationship between capital and labour.
As we recover and rebuild, around what ideas should we structure politics, society and the economy?
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