Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur and more recently How to Fix the Future, sits down with FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska. They both tell the history of their own disenchantment with the internet, and discuss why the Elon Musk story has turned into a Shakespearean tragedy, while Jeff Bezos is more of a Bond villain. "When you do away with gatekeepers you get anarchy," says Mr Keen, but dystopian misery isn't the answer, either.
Angela Nagle on the online culture wars
Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap
Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
Will Davies on populism, data and experts
Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit
Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier
Banking culture since the crisis
Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies
Alphachat Live! Raghuram Rajan and Ashley Putnam on community
The IMF's Tobias Adrian on stability
Bonus: IMF's Vitor Gaspar on debt
Odette Lienau on the most complicated debt restructuring in history
Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"
Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea
Immigration: comparing this wave to the last
Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?
What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish
Germany's China shock
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