Is the world only becoming better and better? How are increases in wealth and life expectancy affected by social inequalities? Why do we hear so little about the global increase in mental illness and its development over time? These are some of the questions that Roland Paulsen, associate professor of sociology, discusses in this video, which is also a comment on some of the claims of Hans Rosling and other New Optimists.
Economics
Michael Hudson – Global Financial Empire
Part 2 of this series (Watch Part 1 here)
Economics
The Finance Curse – Professor Gerald Epstein
Dr. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his many excellent works he and Juan Antonio Montecino calculated the […]
Geopolitics
Joan Scott, Chris Hedges – The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US
29 May 2025 Chris Hedges talks to Professor Joan Scott about the late Amy Kaplan’s cultural analysis of the US and Israel’s mythological shared history and how it has manufactured consent for Israel’s atrocities. The […]
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