Martin Sandbu is the European economic commentator for the Financial Times. In this conversation, Toni Roldán (director of EsadeEcPol) discusses with him the key economic challenges facing Western market economies and how they are deeply entrenched with the current wave of populist elections across democracies. Roldán and Sandbu build on Sandbu’s book, The Economics of Belonging (2020), to produce a timely diagnosis that starts from the search for the underlying causes of this surge and how concrete policies could serve (or not) to address them.
