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Are corporations running the world? Professor Pepper Culpepper and Master of Public Policy student Karan Kalsi explore one of today’s biggest policy questions in the first episode of our Policy Unpacked series.

In this new series from the Blavatnik School of Government, professors and students sit down together to unpack the issues shaping today’s world.

Chapters
00:00 - 01:16 Introduction

01:16 - 05:40 Are we witnessing a new form or corporate power?

05:40 - 08:00 How can we channel public anger?

08:00 - 10:43 How can policy entrepreneurs respond?

10:43 - 14:20 What is corporate power?

14:20 - 18:05 The affiliations of the ‘billionaire class’

18:05 - 23:43 An era deregulation

23:43 - 28:39 The citizen vs the consumer

28:40 - 32:14 The pushback against corporate power

32:15 - 36:37 The role of civic institutions

Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk