Nicholas Shaxson unveils the secrets of the seriously, filthy rich and talks me through how many of the world’s offshore tax havens are not only tropical islands, but actually British & OECD territories. Just what effect does that shadowy ‘spider web’ network of wealth extraction have on our societies? How are offshore tax havens central to the global economy? What is the finance curse?
Climate Crisis
Politics Theory Other – Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world
Jason Hickel joins PTO to talk about his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In part one of the interview we discussed the comprehensive and all-encompassing character of the ecological crisis […]
Austerity
Aufhebunga Bunga: Quinn Slobodian – Order Not Freedom
On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. Auhebunga Bunga talks to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neo-liberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, […]
EU politics
Chantal Mouffe and Wolfgang Streeck on Left Populism
Chantal Mouffe is the author of For a Left Populism https://www.versobooks.com/books/3097-for-a-left-populism, as well as Gramsci and Marxist Theory, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau), The Return of the Political, and more. See all her […]
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