Podcast: Economics & Beyond

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.

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.

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.