Podcast: Economics & Beyond

Sony Kapoor
Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology, and Sustainability, talks to Rob Johnson about the real problems that the pandemic exposes and whether a Green New Deal is still achievable in this context
Orville Schell
Orville Schell: With China, The West Is Reaping the Bitter Harvest of Imperialism
William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism
William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism

Thea Lee
Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America’s dysfunctional labor market.

Paul Jay
Documentarian Paul Jay talks to Rob Johnson about how major investment fund managers, such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, exercise enormous control over public companies, where they use voting rights to stymie efforts to curb climate change.