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Economics
Danny Dorling – Inequality – the big picture
An easily understood, entertaining, and brilliant lecture.
Podcast
Economics
Robert Schiller – Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception
Robert Schiller on his most recent book.
Economics
Steve Keen and Steven Payson – How economics professors can stop failing us
It was the enlightened economist, Joan Robinson who said the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived […]
Economics
Clea Bourne – AI, Millennials, and Monopolies
Clea Bourne looks at developments of the tech sector.
Economics
the juice – Trickledown economics
A funny piece, which explains why tricledown eocnomics in Australia is simply bollocks. Watch here
Finance
Richard Murphy and Saila Stausholm: The Big Four – A study of opacity
Not recent, but still current today, concerning The secret world of the Big 4 firms of accountants
Economics
Kate Raworth – A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
Kate Raworth’s TED Talk on the Doughnut Economy Watch here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
Economics
Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal”
This is a similar to what Colin Hines has been saying (here and here) for which he has been viciously attacked in the UK. This is a couple of years old. For the rest of […]
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Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality: What Do We Do?
The most powerful tool to reduce global inequality is migration. Listen here