In the fourth of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation about how neoliberalism took hold in the UK in the 1980s.

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Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.

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