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The Locus and Focus of Speculation

MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses parts of his forthcoming book, focusing on the history of mass incarceration of uneducated Blacks and how it has created a permanent class of poor Black Americans

Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Properties in America’s Black Cities, discusses the ongoing problem of how real estate dynamics continue to maintain racial injustice in cities across United States, and how we need a “reparative culture” to address the problem.

Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the US economic system has become rigged to favor the richest.

Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.

Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies?

Market fetishists may not know it yet, but it’s over.

Inflation? Expanding digital currencies? What’s next in this brave new world?

You have the power to reframe and reimagine the 21st century.

How do we move fiscal policy from part of the problem to part of the solution?

Why do patriarchal systems survive? What is missing in how economics relates to the concepts of identity and power?

How do we break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the world?

Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust?

As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions

How does the Chinese economy actually work?