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Start the Week

Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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On Start the Week Andrew Marr finds out if it's possible to create a world less impersonal and more equal. David Cameron's former senior adviser, Steve Hilton, believes our governments and institutions are too big, and he argues for a more human-focused society. The US economist Joseph Stiglitz tackles rising inequality in the West and blames the unjust and misguided priorities of neoliberalism. The Russian writer Masha Gessen looks at the struggle between assimilation and alienation as she asks why two brothers turned terrorist, bombing the Boston Marathon.

Producer: Katy Hickman. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Joseph Stiglitz
Interviewed Guest:
Steve Hilton
Interviewed Guest:
Masha Gessen
Producer:
Katy Hickman

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