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Economics
Mariana Mazzucato – Why We Need a New Way to Measure the Economy
Economist Mariana Mazzucato discusses her book and the need for new ways to measure economic performance. Listen here
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Economics
Progressive Economy Forum: “Where will the money come from?” with Ann Pettifor
Progressives are often accused of believing in the “magic money tree” whenever they call for, say, more investment in public services. In this episode Ann Pettifor, expert on the monetary system and international financial architecture, […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze – On his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”
Adam Tooze on his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World” in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin. This is the German version. Unfortunately the English talk was […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast October 2018
In the October 2018 Taxcast: we speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book “The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer” released alongside new research from the Sheffield Political Economy Research […]
Economics
Paul Tucker and Mark Blyth – Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Listen here Watch accompanying talk at the Watson Institute at Brown University: youtu.be/R-Dxrs7dj0w Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik – From Globalization to Hyper-Globalization and Back
“Where does the backlash against globalization come from? Where is it headed? And what would a better globalization look like?” Dani Rodrik [drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu] is an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and […]
Economics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline
You can read our review of Andrea´s book here Listen here
Austerity
Dead Pundits Society – Socialize Finance! with Grace Blakeley
Joining Dead Pundtis Society this week to discuss the dynamics of neoliberal finance (without boring the shit out of you) is Grace Blakeley. We open the show by talking about The World Transformed conference that […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: On Europe’s austerity drive and DiEM25 – an OECD podcast
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]
Economics
Richard Murphy: Corbynomics And Labour’s Fiscal Credibility Rule
This is excellent. In it Richard discusses with Patricia Pino and Christian Reilly what the UK government deficit actually is, Corbynomics, Labour’s Fiscal Credibility rule and the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy. Listen […]