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Climate Crisis
Peter Bofinger – What are the Constraints for a Green New Deal?
The New Deal has become a leading symbol of our age. But what will it take to bring about the next New Deal?
Podcast
Climate Crisis
Renegade Inc.: Steve Keen – Lies, damn lies and climate statistics
It will come as no surprise that a recent poll indicated that economists are among the least-trusted professionals. They’ve made blundering mistakes on everything from claiming financial crises can happen to not facing the most […]
Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so?
“At the Cambridge Union on 7th November 2019 Yanis Varoufakis smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic cool iconoclasm – he has ‘zero respect for economists’ […]
Economics
The MMT Podcast – Stuart Medina: Trade, The Euro and The Pain In Spain (Part 1)
Part 1: Patricia talks to Stuart Medina of Spain’s Red MMT group about the Eurozone crisis viewed through the MMT lens. Listen here
Finance
Ann Pettifor – The case for the Green New Deal
To protect the systems that sustain life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy – we have to change everything. From one of the original thinkers of the program that […]
Climate Crisis
Daniela Gabor – Wall Street will not save the planet from climate crisis. Only you can
Daniela`s talk in Berlin on 23 October 2019. The talk explores the emerging consensus between private finance and regulatory authorities, that a market-driven turn to Sustainable Finance will accelerate the transition to low carbon economies. It […]
Economics
Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”
Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]
Economics
Ha-Joon Chang – The Language of Power
University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why ordinary people can and should learn about economics, and not leave the field to experts speaking in tongues.
Economics
Macro n Cheese: Bill Mitchell – Trade, Foreign Exchange and Modern Monetary Theory: A Field Guide
Listen here For non-economists to learn essentials such as the balance of payments, currency exchange, and trade between nations, presentation matters. The brilliant Bill Mitchell, as always, distills complex concepts in such a way that […]