This is the first video of a two-part lecture in which the Stone Center’s Branko Milanovic discusses writings on inequality by François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx and how their work can be interpreted in terms of interpersonal inequality. In this first video, Milanovic focuses on Quesnay and Smith.
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Mark Blyth – High Water Mark
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s MPA, share their take on the week’s news. Trump’s DACA repeal, hurricanes and insurance markets, Amazon’s growth, […]
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – Israel: Above the law?
27 March 2024 A look into how and why international laws and principles are being applied and ignored in the Israel-Gaza conflict. The events of October 7 sent shockwaves across the world and brought to […]
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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: QE and the bond bubble
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have the assets to cover their customers deposits. They were trading insolvent, in other words, even though they […]
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