What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 1: Shareholders Don't Build Airplanes

As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers. Sources: The Utopia of Rules Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street The 1997 Merger That Paved the Way for the Boeing 737 Max Crisis The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course Harry Stonecipher Speech Requiem for a Dreamliner Seeing like a CEO How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed The Merger That Brought Boeing Low Rise of the Red Engineers See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.