{"id":49009,"date":"2023-12-23T07:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=49009"},"modified":"2023-12-23T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:39:55","slug":"moral-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/moral-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colin Mayer CBE is an eminent Oxford University professor and fellow of the British Academy \u2013 the top club for social scientists.\u00a0 He believes that capitalism is in crisis and has written a book to explain why and what\u2019s to be done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be clear, he is not anti-capitalist <em>per se<\/em> so he won\u2019t get into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/sep\/27\/uk-schools-told-not-to-use-anti-capitalist-material-in-teaching\">trouble with the government<\/a>. But he believes that morality needs to be put at the core of corporations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayer spoke with <em>The Mint<\/em> about the causes and consequences of this shortfall, and explained that misunderstanding Adam Smith was at the core of the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Mayer CBE is an eminent Oxford University professor and fellow of the British Academy \u2013 the top club for social scientists.\u00a0 He believes that capitalism is in crisis and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,151,2547,132,1178,225],"class_list":["post-49009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-capitalism","tag-colin-mayer","tag-dec-2023","tag-economics","tag-morality","tag-purpose","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}