Podcast: Economics & Beyond
Pavlina Tcherneva: The Many Benefits of a Jobs Guarantee
Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, discusses her new book, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee, outlining why society would benefit tremendously from such a program.
Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy
Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy
Stephanie Blankenburg
Stephanie Blankenburg: $1 Trillion Debt Relief Needed for Developing World
Dean Baker
Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about how geopolitical and economic tensions between the US and China benefit powerful elite sectors in the US, but are bad for working people.
Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development and Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 commission, talks about the many challenges and shortcomings of US policy towards the pandemic, as well as his new book, The Ages of Globalization, and how we can get the ethical foundations of economic thinking back on track.
Doug Carmichael
Doug Carmichael: On the Need for Real Dialogue to Address the Crises of Our Time
Eisuke Sakakibara
Eisuke Sakakibara: Japan, China, India, and the US - Strategies and Tensions
Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan: The Upcoming Demographic Shift and What it Means for our Economic Future