“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’ – but this is a radical spirit that guides his beliefs to a mature and deeply felt complexity.”
Austerity
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – 2018 End of Year Roundup
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. In our 2018 year end […]
Media
Politics Theory Other – Richard Seymour: The nightmare of social media
Richard Seymour joins me to discuss his new book, The Twittering Machine. The title is taken from Paul Klee’s 1922 painting in which the the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure […]
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Limits, degrowth and environmental justice
On Malthus and limits, ideology of scarcity and power, degrowth, biopolitics and mal-adaptation.
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