Our version of capitalism is something the narcissistic writer Ayn Rand would adore but in a headlong rush to hyper-individualism, have we chosen freedom of the individual over the survival of our species… Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by economist and author professor Steve Keen to discuss why Coronavirus has closed capitalism.
Economics
Anwar Shaikh – What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?
Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics at the New School, explores alternatives to economic orthodoxies, and the findings of his book Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises.
Economics
Steve Keen – Why we Regularly Witness Financial Debt Crises due to Asset Price Inflation
Steve covers why the Neoclassical model of banking known as “Loanable Funds” is a dangerously misleading caricature of actual banking, why credit has a crucial role in macroeconomics, and why savings is a sensible activity […]
Corruption
The Tortoise Podcast – Daphne Caruana Galizia: My mother’s murder – Episode 3
Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist. She exposed corruption at the highest levels of politics and business in the country until, in October 2017, she was murdered by a car bomb. Since her […]
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