# Reviving the Education Commons and Speaking Truth to Power.  A conversation with Guy Standing

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Podcast: [The Realisation Festival Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-realisation-festival-podcast-7072015)
Published: 2026-03-23T21:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Guy Standing is an economist whose new book Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons has much to say about a key theme of the festival: bildung. His thoughts on the corruption of education by policies that have lost touch with the public good are a provocative introduction to the kind of concerns explored when we meet. In this conversation with Mark Vernon, Guy explores the extent of the challenges facing education in the 21st century, though his deep critique is, at once, an...

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