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Leander Heldring is the Donald P. Jacobs Scholar and Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He joined Kellogg in 2020 after receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests are in economic development, political economy and economic history, with a particular focus on the role of government in facilitating or stifling innovat...

Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. Postcard of the Italian invasion of Libya during the Italo-Turkish War DONATE TODAY A note from Lev: I have been hosting podcast episodes since 2016 and have conducted more than 175 interviews with economists, scholars, and journalists on political economy topics. I am...

From time to time we like to ask our friends about their jobs. This week we talk to Ethan, a professional poker player. Ethan on Poker A Correction Team Donate today A note from Lev: I have been hosting podcast episodes since 2016 and have conducted more than 175 interviews with economists, scholars, and journalists on political economy topics. I am a high school teacher of history and economics a...

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home , a work narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New York. It was named a Notable book of 2020 by the New York Times. Lauren is the author of two previous books, the bestselling One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Onl...

Gabriel Winant is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple, heterogeneous spheres. He focuses on the relationship between economic production and formal e...

Samuel Miller McDonald is an editor at The Trouble and Epilogue , a doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, and graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and College of the Atlantic. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs , The New Republic , and The Guardian , among other publications. He is working on a book called PROGRESS about the history and future of progress, for William Col...

Gerhard Toews is the RNG Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also research affiliate at Oxcarre , University of Oxford , where he defended his DPhil, and the LEO, Orléans University . Political prisoners eating lunch in the Intalag coal mine. Gulags A Correction Team Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes) Subscribe to our newsletter t...

Jorge E. Cuéllar is Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Jorge E. Cuéllar on El Salvador and Bitcoin A Correction Team Check out our new section: Ask An Economist (Key Terms in About 5 Minutes) Subscribe to our newsletter today

George Turner is the director of TaxWatch. He is an investigative journalist and one of the founders of Finance Uncovered, an investigative reporting and training organization. As a journalist he has led multiple investigations that have appeared on front pages across the world. George first became interested in tax policy when he wrote a paper for the think tank Centre Forum in 2013, which reveal...

Levi Boxell is a PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research focuses on focus on media, polarization, and conflict. His other work can be found on his personal webpage . Levi Boxell A Correction Team Subscribe to our newsletter today

Firoze Manji , is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University. He is Kenyan with more than 40 years’ experience in international development, health and human rights, and is the publisher of Daraja Press . He is Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy , and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies . He is the founder and former editor-...

Loren Balhorn works as a Lead Editor at Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation. He also edits the German and US editions of Jacobin Magazine and serves as a board member of the Historical Materialism Book Series. Loren Balhorn on the German Elections and the Collapse of Die Linke A Correction Team Subscribe to our newsletter today A Correction Podcast Episodes RSS

John Comaroff  is Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology at Harvard University. Before joining the Department of African and African American Studies, John Comaroff was the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is also an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and an Af...

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at  King’s College, London . Her research is centered on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, the political economy of development, and critically assessing the economics field. She is also Founder and Editor of the blog  Developing Economics , Founder and St...

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph. D.  is an architect, design scholar, artist,  TED Speaker , and Director of the  Situated Computation + Design Lab  at  Georgia Tech . where she investigates traditional and automated making, human-computer interaction, interdisciplinary creativity, and their intersections with society. Dr. Noel’s scholarship and expertise include design in the&nbs...

Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College and author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Press, 2004) and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso, 2013). Police with dogs guard the grounds at the new Ellis Park Stadium,...

Stefan Ouma holds the Chair of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth. Before that he worked as Doc and Post-Doc at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. His research interests lies in a theoretically and empirically informed economic geography of globalization and development, drawing primarily on insights from heterodox economics, political ecology, and post- and...

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. Her first book, Worldmaking After Emp...

James Robinson is an economist and political scientist. He is currently the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Robinson has conducted influential research in the field of political and economic development and the factors that are the root causes of conflict. His work explores t...

Cory Doctorow  is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the editor of  Pluralistic  and the author of young adult novels like LITTLE BROTHER and HOMELAND and novels for adults like ATTACK SURFACE and WALKAWAY, as well as nonfiction books like HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and c...

Tabari Bomani is the principal at Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice in Brooklyn. William (Bill) Stroud was the founding principal of two New York City public schools and is an instructional leader and trainer. Bob Lubetsky is Clinical Professor in Educational Leadership at The City College of New York. Tabari Bomani, Bill Stroud and Bob Lubetsky on Rethinking Education A Correction Team If...

Camila Vergara is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. Her research combines a critical interpretation of modern and contemporary political thought, grounded on the material organization of power, and a normative political theory guided by a radical republican critique of procedural theories of justice. By focusing on the relation bet...

Rick Rowden is Senior Economist at Global Financial Integrity and Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University. He completed his PhD on India-Africa economic relations in the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. His academic areas of specialization are International Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE...

Pritish Behuria is a Lecturer in Politics, Governance & Development at The University of Manchester. Pritish Behuria’s research operates at the intersection of development studies, comparative politics and international political economy. He is a political economist, trained in classical and heterodox political economy. He takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the challenges associat...