Podcast: Economics & Beyond

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The Pandemic Has Masked as Much as it Unmasked

Mar 3, 2021

Canadian investment manager and Levy Institute fellow Marshall Auerback surveys the current political and economic landscape, from the pandemic bailouts to climate change and the changing role of politicians

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The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal

UMass Amherst professor and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin discusses his latest book that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky

Feb 25, 2021

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Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency

David Fenton, founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications

Feb 22, 2021

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Can Biden Successfully Govern?

Feb 18, 2021

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Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy

Feb 1, 2021

The co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future, Robert Borosage, discusses the many potential pitfalls the Biden administration must deal with, from a new cold war with China, to the persistence of market fundamentalism.

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Dina Srinivasan: Tech Monopolies Need to Be Broken Up

Jan 28, 2021

Digital technology researcher and lawyer Dina Srinivasan discusses the ways in which digital tech companies such as Facebook and Google take advantage of their monopoly positions to the detriment of competition and of the public.

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Jayati Ghosh: Developed World Monopolizes COVID Vaccine at its Own Peril

Dec 28, 2020

UMass Economics Professor Jayati Ghosh points out how pharmaceutical companies not only received massive subsidies for developing a vaccine, but are now trying to hold on to patent monopolies, which will only prolong the pandemic for everyone.

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Seth Klein: How WWII Preparation Sets an Example for Confronting Climate Change

Dec 23, 2020

Public policy researcher and writer Seth Klein discusses his new book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which looks at the example that the mobilization for World War II sets in terms of mobilizing society and resources for coping with an emergency.

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Jacqueline Novogratz: Why We Need a Moral Revolution

Nov 23, 2020

Social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz discusses her book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution and the crisis facing a pandemic-riddled world.

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Richard Kozul-Wright and Orsola Costantini Discusses UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2020

Nov 20, 2020

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Richard Kozul-Wright and Orsola Costantini say we can continue misguided policy choices or collectively chart a new path that leads from recovery to a more resilient, more equal and more environmentally sustainable world.

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Paul Street: The Trump Presidency Was Decades in the Making

Oct 15, 2020

Historian Paul Street talks about how the roots of the Trump presidency lie in the continuous rightward drift in US politics since the 1970’s, to which the Democrats contributed as much as the Republicans

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Dennis Kelleher: A Financial System That Extracts Wealth Instead of Creating It

Oct 13, 2020

Dennis Kelleher, President of the NGO Better Markets, outlines how the financial system is serving the wealthy, how it has been reformed in the past and how it can be reformed again to serve Main Street instead of Wall Street.

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Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy

Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy

Oct 7, 2020

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Stephanie Blankenburg

Stephanie Blankenburg: $1 Trillion Debt Relief Needed for Developing World

Oct 5, 2020

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Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons: Both Democrats and Republicans Sold Out Ordinary Americans

Oct 1, 2020

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker: China and the Problem with Patent Monopolies

Sep 28, 2020

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Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs: How the US Botched the Pandemic Response

Sep 24, 2020

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Doug Carmichael

Doug Carmichael: On the Need for Real Dialogue to Address the Crises of Our Time

Sep 21, 2020

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Eisuke Sakakibara

Eisuke Sakakibara: Japan, China, India, and the US - Strategies and Tensions

Sep 17, 2020

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Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit

Sep 14, 2020

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Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan

Sep 11, 2020

Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of the financial markets group at the London School of Economics, and Manoj Pradhan, founder of the research firm Talking Heads Macro, talk to Rob about their just released book, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival