![]() ![]() It is also meant to provide policymakers, business leaders, investors, and everyday citizens with a framework that they can use to navigate this changing world. Today’s conversation is meant to not only advance this story but to also advance a framework for understanding the changing world that we are living in. It’s the story of what has been happening to us in Western countries and how we arrived at this state of affairs where our societies have become more politically and culturally divided, where our financial systems have become less responsive to the real needs of our economies, and where the international security environment has become more precarious than it has ever been in the living memories of most people. This is part of a larger story that Demetri has been trying to tell since the earliest days of the podcast. It blurs the boundaries between policy fields that we are used to thinking about in isolated terms-monetary policy, the environment, trade, even war and peace-and forces us to think more concretely about our political values and our common identities. ![]() How to maintain this legitimacy while navigating a change in the balance of power may be the most important question that any policymaker or politician can try and answer. What prompted today’s conversation was the recent publication of Paul’s book “Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World.” The book deals with the incredibly important but rarely discussed subject of legitimacy and where it intersects with the world of geopolitics. ![]() He was a member of the G20 Financial Stability Board and a director of the Bank for International Settlements, which means he has worked at the highest levels of some of the most important policy-making bodies and research institutions in the world. During his time at the BoE, Sir Paul sat on the bank’s monetary policy, financial stability, and prudential policy committees. In Episode 297 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker. ![]()
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