Podcast: Economics & Beyond
The Pandemic Has Masked as Much as it Unmasked
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
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
Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency
David Fenton, founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications
Can Biden Successfully Govern?
Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy
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.
Dina Srinivasan: Tech Monopolies Need to Be Broken Up
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.
What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair?
Jayati Ghosh: Developed World Monopolizes COVID Vaccine at its Own Peril
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.
Seth Klein: How WWII Preparation Sets an Example for Confronting Climate Change
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.
Jacqueline Novogratz: Why We Need a Moral Revolution
Social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz discusses her book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution and the crisis facing a pandemic-riddled world.
Richard Kozul-Wright and Orsola Costantini Discusses UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 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.
Paul Street: The Trump Presidency Was Decades in the Making
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
Dennis Kelleher: A Financial System That Extracts Wealth Instead of Creating It
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.
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
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, 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