ARCHIVE: Leaders Who Changed Global Economics: Lenin, FDR, Deng Xiaoping, Thatcher (Sir Vince Cable)

ARCHIVE: Leaders Who Changed Global Economics: Lenin, FDR, Deng Xiaoping, Thatcher (Sir Vince Cable)

FIRST AIRED: 26/04/2021.

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrat’s about his new book ‘Money & Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics’.

He discusses the prominent role of the most iconic figures of the 20th century in shifting economics, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and certain myths we associate with him, Soviet Union founder and Bolshevik Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and how his biggest impact wasn’t on the Soviet Union, but rather on Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping who’s policies inspired by Lenin’s New Economic Policy caused the start of the rise of China’s economy, the rise of neoliberalism and Margaret Thatcher’s election.

Sir Vince Cable also discusses Brexit and the lobbying scandal rocking the UK government.