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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Britain’s Risotto Crisis (1:28), and a listener question - how does the global market for fossil fuels actually work (7:35)? Grab your free ticket the upcoming book launch of 'The Exhausted of the Earth' by Ajay Chaudhary in conversation with Dalia Gebrial tinyurl.com/9r8chfu9 Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/sho...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of an economic bounce-back in the United States and what’s driving it (0:47), how interest rates in the Global North helping to fuel a “silent debt crisis” in the Global South (6:41), and a listener question - should the Bank of England really be independent of government (15:07)? Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/sh...

On this week’s Macrodose, BUDGET SPECIAL! James Meadway is joined by Stella Tsantekidou to give an immediate reaction to today's budget announcement by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. Stella Tsantekidou is a former Labour Party advisor and head of policy for the criminal justice charity, Catch-22. Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy f...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down chocflation - why Easter Egg prices are so high (2:07), how the world is becoming uninsurable as climate change meets capitalism (8.40) and a listener question - how do the Office for Budget Responsibility make their economic forecasts (15:02)? Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy fr...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the real meaning of the news that the UK has entered a recession (0:51), the geopolitical consequences of the vast amount of energy required to run the digital economy  (8:36) and the apparent return of inflation (13:31). You can listen to our interview with Richard Jones, Why you should care about semiconductors , here tinyurl.com/yz44s2sd or by...

Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe who is joined by two thinkers whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and its discontents, cryptocurrency, conspiracy theories, and so much more have overlapping and fascinating insights for how we see the political world today. Quinn Slobodian's most recent book is  Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the Labour Party abandoning their £28bn green investment pledge (2:14), the farmers' protests across Europe (10:33) and a listener question - why are supermarkets so keen on us using their loyalty cards (17:42)? Check out EnBloc at enbloc.uk Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy f...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economic consequences of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea to global trade (1:46) and a recent report from the New York Times suggesting the Biden administration in the US is looking to take action on profiteering by US food suppliers (10:20). Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy...

On this week’s Macrodose Nick Bano gives an alternative perspective on the housing crisis. Throwing out the usual talk of supply, demand, and financialisation, and instead focusing on the underlying dynamic that is actually responsible for producing property values - the relationship between landlords and tenants. Nick is a writer and a Barrister who specialises in representing homeless people, re...

Welcome to this very first episode of Macrodose Roundtable, the show where we go in depth with some of the brightest minds from the world of economics and ecology. Macrodose roundtables are an opportunity to expand some of the ideas introduced in our main show, in a longer form, multi-guest format. Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe and looks at the political...

On this week’s Macrodose Yanis Varoufakis provides the compelling argument that capitalism has been killed and replaced by a new economic system - Technofeudalism. Yanis is an economist, politician, formerly Greece’s finance minister and author of several books, including most recently Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism. You can grab a copy via our reading list linked below. Find the full MAC...

On this week’s Macrodose Nick Dearden takes us on a deep dive into the the history of the pharmaceutical industry - asking how it became the leviathan it is today, why it has been able to assert its unchecked geopolitical influence across the world, and whether there is anything that can be done to loosen its grip on global health. Nick is the director of Global Justice Now, and a campaigner on is...

On this week’s Macrodose Dalia Gebrial takes us on a deep dive into the gig economy (1:54). What are the real costs of the platform promise? Who is losing out, why and how? And what explains its meteoric rise? Dalia Gebrial is lecturer at King's College London and co-host of Novara Live at Novara Media. Her research focuses on race, work and technology. Sign up to our newsletter The Fix : mail...

On this week’s Macrodose we bring you our second and final holiday special before we return to the regular show next week. We’ve picked 3 more of our favourite stories from the last year. First, should we worry about government debt (0:44)? Second, is Brexit to blame for food shortages (7:37)? And finally a look at the real environmental cost of cryptocurrencies (14:28). Sign up to our newsletter...

On this week’s Macrodose we bring you a selection of our favourite stories of the last year. First, from “planetary boundaries” to doughnut economics - are there quantifiable limits to our exploitation of nature (0:40), next Greedflation - what is it and what are the mainstream missing (7:09) and finally a listener question - Universal Basic Income vs Universal Basic Services (14:11). Sign up to o...

On this week’s Macrodose, Asad Rehman takes us on a journey through COPs past (1:28), present (8:07) and future (14:13).  Asad has attended a staggering 15 COPs and was in attendance this year at COP28, helping coordinate the global climate justice movements. He is also the Director of War on Want, a London based charity challenging the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through part...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how interest rates have been impacting the UK economy (1:10), the growing risks of climate change to global health (10:08) and the decision to host COP in Azerbaijan next year (14:11). The Fix: https://mailchi.mp/45d9275470d6/macrodose Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy from the l...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the new Loss and Damage Fund agreed at this year’s COP (0:42), why the phasing out of fossil fuels being met with so much resistance (7:59) and a response to some listener criticism on our episode The EV Myth (15:05). Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy from the list Macrodose gets...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: what the victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei means for Argentina and the world (1:19) and how climate change is driving inflation and directly squeezing British households (9:49). Find the full MACRODOSE READING LIST here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/macrodosepod - for each book you buy from the list Macrodose gets 10% of what you pay, so for...

Macrodose is turning 1! To celebrate we hosted our first Macrodose live event. In this panel discussion James Meadway is joined by Labour MP Nadia Whittome, Senior Fellow at the Social Market Foundation Shreya Nanda and author/Guardian columnist Owen Jones to discuss: where next for the UK economy? You can check out our SPACE4’s events calendar here: space4.tech/events/ A massive thank you to all...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway is joined by Grace Blakely to discuss today’s Autumn Statement  from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt - what this all means for you, and where next for the economy? Grace is an economist and author of the forthcoming book Vulture Capitalism: corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom , which you can pre-order from your favourite bookshop or via this...

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: why EVs are not the answer to climate breakdown (0:40) and a surprising success story around price controls in Switzerland (6:09). A massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your support keeps the show running and we are very grateful. If you have the means and enjoy our work, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe...

Arctic rolls, not Arctic resource conflicts! On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how the race for Arctic resources is reshaping global capitalism (0:44) and a new report on the decrepit state of Britain’s public services (7:52). A massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your support keeps the show running and we are very grateful. If you have the means and en...

FOLLOW OUR NEW SOCIAL CHANNELS FOR UPDATES: ⁠ linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast⁠ On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: leaked transcripts that show how big arms manufacturers are profiteering from Israel's war on Palestine (0:39), and why the American economy growing so much faster than Europe and the UK (6:39). A massive thank you to all of our existing Patreon subscribers, your suppo...

FOLLOW OUR NEW SOCIAL CHANNELS FOR UPDATES: linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how China’s semiconductor industry is driving regional water shortages (1:50), what we can learn from Labour’s 2019 election defeat about the roadblocks to nationalisation (10:33), and an exciting project to repurpose Britain’s abandoned coal mines (19:56). We’re celebrating...