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SD55 w/ Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism 05.07.2026

Podcast : Social Discipline (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : SD55 w/ Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism Pub date : 2026-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of Social Discipline, we talk to Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo about their book Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely...

Transaction Denied 05.07.2026

Podcast : Future Knowledge (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Transaction Denied Pub date : 2026-06-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In Transaction Denied: How Financial Institutions Silence Dissent and Undermine Democracy , author Rainey Reitman examines the growing phenomenon of financial censorship, in which banks, paym...

The Index Fund Problemtunity 05.07.2026

Podcast : Slate Money (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Index Fund Problemtunity Pub date : 2026-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week: Google’s parent company announced an unexpected move to raise $80 billion for their AI ventures. Felix Salmon , Elizabeth Spiers , and guest host Mary Childs – host of the ne...

The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar w/ Fadhel Kaboub 20.06.2026

Podcast : Upstream (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar w/ Fadhel Kaboub Pub date : 2026-06-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode we're joined by Fadhel Kaboub for a conversation about the US dollar, its hegemony over the globe, and the emerging challenges to this hegemony. Fa...

/550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas 20.06.2026

Podcast : Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : /550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas Pub date : 2026-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On world money and war. Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS, London, talks to George and Alex about financialisation, arrested development, and the...

Development finance after Trump 07.06.2026

Podcast : Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video Episode : Development finance after Trump Pub date : 2026-05-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Trump Administration has closed the world’s largest bilateral aid programme, USAID and poured scorn on its past effectiveness. Other donors are also cutting their aid programmes a...

When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America 07.06.2026

Podcast : The Story of Money (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America Pub date : 2026-05-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 19th-century America almost anyone could print their own money – and many did. One of the most notable figures to take this up was a man nam...

/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley 09.05.2026

Podcast : Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : /547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley Pub date : 2026-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On political capitalism and divided workers. Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the state prop...

Taeku Lee: The Billionaire Backlash 26.04.2026

Podcast : Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Taeku Lee: The Billionaire Backlash Pub date : 2026-04-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How can corporate scandals—from Enron to the Facebook privacy controversy—change the way the world works for the better? Political scientists Pepper Cul...

Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future 26.04.2026

Podcast : Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video Episode : Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future Pub date : 2026-03-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Fifty years after powerful labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy and gain control of large businesses, wha...

Prof. Jan Toporowski | Monetary Theory, Macroeconomics and Finance 05.04.2026

Podcast : The Beverage Report Podcast Episode : Prof. Jan Toporowski | Monetary Theory, Macroeconomics and Finance Pub date : 2026-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the Beverage Report Podcast, we interview Prof. Jan Toporowski, former Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS. How do government debt management, mon...

The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey 05.04.2026

Podcast : Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey Pub date : 2026-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ira and Rudy join renowned geographer David Harvey for a chat on his pedagogy and his theories of economics, neoliberalism and imperialism. The podcast and artwor...

Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money 03.04.2026

Podcast : The Story of Money (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money Pub date : 2026-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization US President Donald Trump handed crypto companies a huge win last year when he signed a piece of legislation to regulate an important part of the digita...

S03E59 - Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning 21.03.2026

Podcast : Future Histories (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : S03E59 - Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning Pub date : 2026-03-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Cédric Durand discusses ecological planning, institutional utopias, and the idea of bifurcation. Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehisto...

Ep 368 - Socialism Unmade: Confronting Five Centuries of Capital with Ali Kadri 07.03.2026

Podcast : Macro N Cheese (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Ep 368 - Socialism Unmade: Confronting Five Centuries of Capital with Ali Kadri Pub date : 2026-02-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “...Some are dancing, some are drowning, but in the end everybody’s going to go under.” Dr. Ali Kadri (Sun Yat-sen University), autho...

China’s financial system: big, powerful and still state-run 28.02.2026

Podcast : The Sound of Economics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : China’s financial system: big, powerful and still state-run Pub date : 2026-02-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization China’s banking sector has expanded from a fragile, state-dominated system in the 1990s into the largest in the world. But this increased scale h...

Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair 21.02.2026

Podcast : Conversations in Atlantic Theory Episode : Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair Pub date : 2026-02-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr.   Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Founding Director of t...

China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalance 06.02.2026

Podcast : The Sound of Economics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalance Pub date : 2026-01-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of The Sound of Economics , host Yuyun Zhan is joined by Bruegel Senior Fellow Alicia García-Herrero and Jürgen Matthes of the German...

Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson) 24.01.2026

Podcast : Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson) Pub date : 2026-01-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Americans have been told that working harder is the path to dignity, security, and success. But...

The Venezuela Conundrum 18.01.2026

Podcast : Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Venezuela Conundrum Pub date : 2026-01-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why is the United States inserting itself so aggressively into Venezuela’s affairs? Trump says it’s about oil, but that doesn’t quite add up, according to Adam and Cameron. Learn more abo...

Ep 360 - Care Theory of Value with Emma Holten 17.01.2026

Podcast : Macro N Cheese (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Ep 360 - Care Theory of Value with Emma Holten Pub date : 2025-12-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Let’s face it, even “good” macro talk can fall into the trap of treating the economy like a tidy spreadsheet while real lives get crushed in the margins. To help us p...

How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino) 17.01.2026

Podcast : Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino) Pub date : 2025-12-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization For more than a century, economists have told us they’re simply “describing the world as it is.” But what i...

Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg 20.12.2025

Podcast : Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg Pub date : 2025-12-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Adam and Cameron continue their December series on founding Soviet thinkers. This week, they discuss the life and work of Polish German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Learn mo...

US "r" Us or tax sovereignty? 20.12.2025

Podcast : The Taxcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : US "r" Us or tax sovereignty? Pub date : 2025-11-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Countries can either capitulate to President Trump's tax bullying. Or come together to fight for the sovereign right to tax multinationals fairly. In this episode host Naomi Fowler explo...

American Sociological Review - Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia's Civil War 20.12.2025

Podcast : Sage Sociology (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : American Sociological Review - Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia's Civil War Pub date : 2025-12-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Author Laura Acosta discusses the article, " Fabric...

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