Jo Swinson on the new economy

How can we make the "new economy", just "the economy"?

Paul Skinner recently interviewed Jo Swinson, former MP and leader of the Liberal Democrats, author of Equal Power and Director of Partners for a New Economy, to explore this question and more.

The conversation covered how business, politics and civil society can work together to create a fairer, more sustainable future, Jo's time in politics (including co-founding a cross-party parliamentary group dedicated to wellbeing economics), why she wrote Equal Power and her current role as Director of Partners for a New Economy (a philanthropic collective dedicated to funding initiatives transforming economic thinking and practice).

This isn't just a conversation about economics. It's about the stories we tell, the systems we create and the choices that shape our future.

Paul highlighted the crossovers between this discussion and previous xChanges with Tim Jackson on The Care Economy, Will Hutton on the ‘We society’, Polly Mackenzie on purposeful enterprise and Andy Burnham on devolution to counter the silos of central government.

Watch the full xChange below or listen to the podcast version here.