2026-03-30
1 小时 31 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
There's such a silence that I feel I must start.
Welcome, everyone.
My name is Robin Archer.
I'm the director of the Ralph Miliband Program here at the London School of Economics.
And I'm super pleased to welcome you to our event tonight.
It 's an event that 's co-organized by the LSE's Cohesive Capitalism Program and also by the Research Program
on Alternative to Capitalism here at the LSE.
So it's a sort of a three-headed monster.
Now, I myself have a longstanding interest in this area of economic democracy.
And if you 're interested in what I have to say about it,
you can look at my book, Economic Democracy, The Politics of Feasible Socialism.
But that's not why we're meeting today.
The peg for our meeting today is the fact that it 's the 50th anniversary of the so-called Swedish Meidner Plan,
which if you know about it, you do n't need me to tell you.
But if you don't, it's one of the most extraordinary and innovative efforts.
Over a period of 100 or even 150 years to try and democratise a major capitalist economy.
And so we thought it was a good occasion both to reflect on the legacy of that,
but also to think about the prospects for economic democracy in the present.