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Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson, 'Corporate Empire: US Multinational Corporations' Fight for Citizenship Against the New International Economic Order' 02.11.2026

Podcast : Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson, 'Corporate Empire: US Multinational Corporations' Fight for Citizenship Against the New International Economic Order' Pub date : 2026-10-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “What were the capitalists doing? And what...

The Specter of Puerto Rico’s Debt 25.10.2026

Podcast : Slate Money (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Specter of Puerto Rico’s Debt Pub date : 2026-10-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When Puerto Rico’s debt crisis ballooned into the largest governmental default in U.S. history, Congress stepped in with an unprecedented solution. Felix Salmon is joined by David...

Entrapped by E-Commerce 17.10.2026

Podcast : Gateway to Global China Episode : Entrapped by E-Commerce Pub date : 2026-09-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among the country’s top d...

The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer 03.10.2026

Podcast : Politics Done Right (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer Pub date : 2026-09-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Public research helps create medicines while private firms develop, market, and price them. UnitedHealth’s growth heightens the urgen...

Episode 103: Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay 27.09.2026

Podcast : Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 103: Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay Pub date : 2026-09-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jennifer, Çinla, and François are joined by Professor Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay from the University of Lorraine to discuss hi...

Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development 27.09.2026

Podcast : IMF Podcasts (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development Pub date : 2026-09-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Manufacturing and industrialization have long been the development strategy for many countries in Asia. But while the approach has spurred growth and lifted millions out of po...

Ha-Joon Chang on Infant Industry Protection 12.09.2026

Podcast : IMF Podcasts (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Ha-Joon Chang on Infant Industry Protection Pub date : 2026-09-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today's South Korean economy is a far cry from what Ha-Joon Chang was born into. But growing up, he witnessed the remarkable transformation of a largely agrarian society...

Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist? 05.09.2026

Podcast : The Story of Money (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist? Pub date : 2026-08-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Did you know that the Prophet Mohammed was a caravan trader? He helped arrange convoys of thousands of camels carrying valuable goods across the Arabian desert...

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need 23.08.2026

Podcast : Politics Done Right (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need Pub date : 2026-08-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind...

The Hidden Government Debt 22.08.2026

Podcast : All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : The Hidden Government Debt Pub date : 2026-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Governments can make debt less visible, but they can't make it disappear. In this episode of All Things Policy, Kripa Koshy speaks with Sarthak Pradhan about off-budget borrowing - th...

Working in extreme heat 01.08.2026

Podcast : etui.podcast Episode : Working in extreme heat Pub date : 2026-07-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, a reality that all kinds of workplaces need to adapt to. Recent survey evidence tells us that around one in five workers in the EU have reported exposure to extreme heat at work, r...

South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis 18.07.2026

Podcast : The Story of Money (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis Pub date : 2026-07-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1720, the South Sea Company was one of the most valuable businesses in Britain until a spectacular collapse in its public...

Apostles of Development, Episode 49 11.07.2026

Podcast : Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Apostles of Development, Episode 49 Pub date : 2026-06-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Guest: David Engerman ( Yale University ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( University of Lausanne ) In this episode features Davi...

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...

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