This is the second 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 second video, Milanovic focuses on Ricardo and Marx.
Economics
David Harvey – The Power Center of Capitalism Has Shifted
Prof Harvey takes a look into why modern capitalism concentrates power more in finance and merchant capital than industrial capital. What changes in neoliberalism created such focus on financialization instead of surplus value? “What we’ve […]
Economics
The MMT Podcast – Ellis Winningham: Challenging Orthodoxy (part 1)
Patricia and Christian talk to economist and activist Ellis Winningham about introducing people to MMT, the nature of money, quantity theory of money, inflation, deficit trolls, and the challenge of “paying back” government debt using […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Kate Raworth
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to how economic theory is divorced from environmental reality, exemplified by how environmental breakdown is often dismissingly referred to as a mere “externality”. In this […]
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