#103: A Labor Intellectual's Plan To Rebraid Our Frayed Social Fabric – Andrew Leigh
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Dr Andrew Leigh MP is an economist and Federal Labor parliamentarian.
Show notes
Selected links
- Follow Andrew: Website | Twitter
- Reconnected, by Andrew Leigh and Nick Terrell
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
- Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam
- Disconnected, by Andrew Leigh
Topics discussed
- What has Andrew’s experience of the pandemic been like? 7:54
- Andrew’s vision for Australian society. 9:40
- What was it like to work under Robert Putnam? 12:27
- What are some of the big lessons Andrew learned from Putnam? 15:00
- What is Andrew’s research system? 17:43
- What is ‘social capital’? 18:12
- What is the story of the decline of social capital in Australia? 19:24
- Pushing back on the idea of social capital. 21:17
- Andrew’s favourite examples of social entrepreneurship in Australia. 29:00
- Has the net effect of the digital world been to connect or disconnect us? 31:38
- Why are some organisations better at building social capital than others? 35:07
- How does Andrew think about religion? 36:40
- How can we increase social capital by using systems or design thinking? 41:37
- What impactful community organisation is no one building? 44:05