welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the idea of a social contract is a staple of political philosophy. put crudely, it s the ties and obligations that bind the individual, the community and the state. but what happens when that contract is threatened by forces beyond the control of any national government say, a climate crisis or, right now, a global pandemic? my guest is baroness minouche shafik, the director of london school of economics, former top official at the world bank. is humanity capable of collective action to meet global challenges? baroness minouche shafik, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have written extensively, through a long career as a top economist, about the relationship between the individual and the collective whether it be the community, the nation state or, indeed, the wider world. what do you think the covid pandemic has revealed to us about the limitations of, for exa
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without flipping people and doing the things that we were probably hurting them more than we were helping them. our doctors and nurses didn t stand a chance against that fire of a virus because china had original experience and medical notes that they could have shared with the world and they chose not to. thailand tried. they tried to get in there. the who. i don t know how hard you try when you are paid not to. they said early on it can t go through human-to-human contact. i don t know why we give them so much money rick either. americans are scrutinizing for what we re paying. they ought to be looking at organizations like that who seem very political in their agenda and when it came time to do their work, anticipate and mitigate global pandemics and explain to the rest of us they fell down. they were definitely wrong. i worked in the trump/pence white house and we worked on it
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