Lea Ypi reflects on her childhood and youth in socialist Albania and the country's subsequent transition to liberal democracy and a free market economy. What's clear: None of the political economies Ypi experienced satisfied her need for and concept of freedom.

Shownotes

Lea Ypi's Website:

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/YPI/

Lea on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/lea_ypi

Ypi. Lea. 2021. Free. Coming of Age at the End of History. London: allen lane, Penguin Random House:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320869/free/9780241481851.html

Ypi, Lea. 2022. Frei. Erwachsenwerden am Ende der Geschichte. Berlin: Suhrkamp:

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/lea-ypi-frei-t-9783518430347

Fine, Sarah, and Lea Ypi. 2016. Migration in Political Theory. The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford University Press:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/migration-in-political-theory-9780199676606?cc=gb&lang=en&

Wellman, Christopher Heath. 2016. "Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and Exit" in: Migration in Political Theory. The Ethics of Movement and Membership, ed. Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, Oxford University Press, p. 80–104:

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676606.001.0001/acprof-9780199676606-chapter-5

The Journal of Political Philosophy, of which Lea Ypi is co-editor:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679760

Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, of which Lea Ypi is commissioning editor:

https://renewal.org.uk/

Lea Ypi at The New Institute:

https://thenew.institute/en/who/lea-ypi

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