The new episode of Pagecast is out now! Listen to an interview with Ian Goldin, author of Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
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The new episode of Pagecast, the podcast from Jonathan Ball Publishers, is out now!

Released every Monday at 7 am, Pagecast offers you insider interviews with recently published authors, looking into the process of writing, exploring the narratives within and providing you with the story behind the story.

Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World is an optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by Ian Goldin, a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.

We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion.

He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report. Published in 1942, it was revolutionary and laid the foundations for the welfare state alongside a host of other social and economic reforms, changing the world for the better.

Ian Goldin tackles the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, ranging from globalisation to the future of jobs, income inequality and geopolitics, the climate crisis and the modern city. It is a fresh, bold call for an optimistic future and one we all have the power to create.

In the episode, Goldin is in conversation with Professor Edgar Pieterse.