Episode

Europe’s populist panic & China’s real free market

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The Econoclasts
Published
Jul 14, 2026
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2249
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Summary

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the establishment’s self-defeating 'lawfare' strategy against rising right-wing populists like Marine Le Pen, and Nigel Farage, while debunking the myth that capitalism is synonymous with free markets by contrasting Western state-protected monopolies like SpaceX with China’s highly competitive, state-guided economic model. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.