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The Great Expectations of the middle class

Jeffrey Chwieroth [1], Andrew Walter [2] interviewed by Tim Phillips [3], 15 November 2019

When there's a financial crisis, policymakers and politicians increasingly kowtow to the demands of an influential group: the global middle class. Jeffrey Chwieroth and Andrew Walter tell Tim Phillips how their Great Expectations are destabilising the world economy.

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Topics:  Politics and economics [9]

Tags:  Great expectations [10], middle class [11], crises [12], financial sector [13], risk [14], debt [15], instability [16]

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/great-expectations-middle-class

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/220847
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/222449
[3] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
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[5] https://voxeu.org/article/satisfying-great-expectations-middle-class
[6] https://voxeu.org/article/brief-history-middle-class-economics
[7] https://voxeu.org/article/banking-crises-and-political-survival-over-long-run
[8] https://voxeu.org/article/political-constraints-aftermath-financial-crises
[9] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/politics-and-economics
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[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3506
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1698
[13] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1234
[14] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/672
[15] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1441
[16] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3098