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Transcript of the Mark Blyth interview in full

That   00:04 this 00:05 is the foreign press association in new 00:07 york and i am ian williams the president 00:10 and we have with us today markiplier 00:14 who is um i think you're a us citizen 00:18 now as well like me an 00:19 expatriated scot um 00:22 who maintains connections uh and 00:25 watches closely what is happening across 00:28 the atlantic 00:30 and his main expertise is in 00:33 economics so his very very good book 00:37 which i interviewed him some years ago 00:39 was on austerity 00:41 which he pointed out was an extremely 00:43 bad idea 00:44 uh and eloquently and demonstratively 00:47 showed it was a very very bad idea 00:49 and it was amazing anyway his latest 00:52 book which i happened to miss 00:53 because i think i was dying in hospital 00:55 at the time it was angonomics i just 00:57 have to catch up on it 00:59 and get back to it about the effect of 01:02 what austerity does to people's sanity 01:05 yeah absolutely 01:07 so uh with the moving 01:10 t