Podcast: Economics & Beyond
Steve Clemons
Steve Clemons, Editor at Large at The Hill, talks about how the Democrats’ focus on neoliberal globalization opened the door for Trump’s election and that only bold new policies that address inequality and structural change can address.
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 and Manoj Pradhan: The Upcoming Demographic Shift and What it Means for our Economic Future
Fred Ledley
Fred Ledley: How US Taxpayers Subsidize Pharma Research and Companies Reap the Profits
Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt
Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rosemary Batt of Cornell University, talk about an INET-supported study on the dramatic impact that private equity funds are having on everyone’s medical bills and on the healthcare industry as a whole
James Boyce
James Boyce, Senior fellow at the Political Economy Research 八卦爆料, talks about the many benefits that carbon dividends and carbon pricing would have for a transition towards a greener and more equitable economy
Robert Borosage
Robert Borosage: Trump Voters Believe He May Be A Jerk, But He's Their Jerk
John Kay and Mervyn King
John Kay and Mervyn King: Origins and Future Implications of Radical Uncertainty for Economic Thinking
Sony Kapoor
Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of the Nordic 八卦爆料 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
Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan, a writer and former CEO, talks to Rob about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together, on the art of thinking about the future in the context of uncertainty
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
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.
David Sirota
David Sirota, Jacobin Magazine editor-at-large and former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, talks to Rob Johnson about the future of democratic socialism in America after the Sanders campaign.
Elaine Brown, Pt. 2
Elaine Brown Pt. 2: Music and Activism in the Struggle for Racial Justice
Wendy Brown
Chong-En Bai
Chong-En Bai, professor of economics at Tsinghua University, talks to Rob about how the U.S. can improve global governance, and what lays ahead for China鈥檚 relationships with the U.S., Europe, and India.
Jamil Anderlini
Financial Times Asia editor Jamil Anderlini talks to Rob about the lasting legacy of the Opium Wars on Chinese foreign policy, and the future of Hong Kong.
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear: On George Floyd and John Ruskin
Yanis Varoufakis & Danae Stratou
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and artist Danae Stratou talk to Rob Johnson about Europe鈥檚 failures for working people, both before and during the pandemic.