one that deserves general election and we ask the author of why nations fail british economist james robinson if the u.k. chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britain's economy plus we ask a former u.k. home office minister why a pandemic hasn't yet been declared in britain and who really stands to gain from vaccine research funded by taxpayers money all the support coming up in today's going underground 1st today marks britain's 1st budget since leaving the world's largest trading bloc the e.u. the headlines are awash with government funding to deal with the u.k.'s recent flooding and soaring rates of coronavirus but what about the poorest in our society 14000000 of whom live in poverty including 4000000 children it's a metric u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonald will measure this budget with joining me now from geneva in switzerland is someone who has advised a shadow chancellor standing co-founder of the basic income earth network guy thanks so much for coming back on so after years of tory austerity the un called it callous policies driven by a politi

now via skype from chicago is the british economist and author of why nations fail professor james robinson thanks so much and for coming on how resilient darr the economies where the 20018 can amika de janeiro actually began to a real contagion literal contagion like coronavirus well i want you mean china i think id from our perspective. there's a lot of there 'd are lots of problems about how resilient china is you know china has what we call extractive political institutions and so they're good at doing some things but they're very bad at doing other things. getting people to cooperate with them and trust them which is essential to fighting something like this is not will things that the chinese government is good at but china is already reporting fewer increases in numbers of cases than where you're talking to me from the united states right china is closing down some of the pop up hospital they built well it may be reporting that but i don't think we trust the information and i think one of the problems in china has been you. so the lack of proper information about how many cases there

december's general election and we are asking the author of why nations fail british economists james robinson if the u.k. chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britain's economy plus we ask a former u.k. home office minister why a pandemic hasn't yet been declared in britain and who really stands to gain from vaccine research funded by taxpayers money all the support coming up in today's going underground 1st today marks britain's 1st budget since leaving the world's largest trading bloc the e.u. the headlines are awash with government funding to deal with the u.k.'s recent flooding and soaring rates of coronavirus but what about the poorest in our society 14000000 of whom live in paul.

we did 1 december general election and we ask the author of why nations fail british economist james robinson if the u.k. chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britain's economy plus we ask a former u.k. home office minister why a pandemic hasn't yet been declared in britain and who really stands to gain from vaccine research funded by taxpayers money all the support coming up in today's going underground 1st today marks britain's 1st budget since leaving the world's largest trading bloc the e.u. the headlines are awash with government funding to deal with the u.k.'s recent flooding and soaring rates of coronavirus but what about the poorest in our society 14000000 of whom live in poverty including 4000000 children it's a metric u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonald will measure this budget with joining me now from geneva in switzerland is someone who has advised the shadow chancellor standing co-founder of the basic income earth network guy thanks so much for coming back on so after years of tory austerity the u.n. called it callous policies driven by a po

. >> james, this is gene robinson. thanks for the acknowledgment -- fine. orangeburg, south carolina. i appreciate that. >> i was thinking about you. >> i do appreciate it. bless your heart. here's my question. so, i think you could conclude from the primary season thus far that in the aggregate, the democratic party is not as progressive as the sanders wing of the party, just in the aggregate. and i think that's a factor. i mean, just not everybody is as to the left as the sanders party is. i know a lot of -- i talk to a lot of folks in south carolina who certainly are not. but that is a huge and maybe a minority, but it's a huge chunk of the party. so, how do you in a policy-way, not necessarily a touchy feely way, but how do you reconcile that with the more main stream direction that vice president biden would take part in. i mean, because i do think that's an issue. >> well, i think what happened is let's just take medicare for all. many democrats might agree with it. but it was concluded that this was an electoral illusion and that ended it. and we're