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The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan 26.08.2025

Podcast : Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan Pub date : 2025-08-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “ The Radical Potential of Consu...

Back to Basics Series: Is Economics Moral? (with Heather McGhee) 18.08.2025

Podcast : Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Back to Basics Series: Is Economics Moral? (with Heather McGhee) Pub date : 2025-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization For decades, orthodox economics has treated morality as irrelevant—as if economic decisions happen in a vacuum, separate fr...

(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust 21.07.2025

Podcast : Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust Pub date : 2025-07-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “ (Un)conditional Openness: Towa...

Nat Dyer - Economics, Power and the Real World 21.07.2025

Podcast : Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Nat Dyer - Economics, Power and the Real World Pub date : 2025-06-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, we welcome Dr Nat Dyer, journalist, researcher and author of Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real W...

Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust 01.07.2025

Podcast : Matrix Podcast Episode : Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust Pub date : 2025-06-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Large corporations increasingly dominate markets, the flow of information, and political influence. In response, many governments have used antitrust policies in an attempt to rein in companies. Examples i...

Trump's Trade War with Europe 30.06.2025

Podcast : Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Trump's Trade War with Europe Pub date : 2025-05-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Trump administration has put its plans to impose a 50 percent tariff on all goods from Europe on hold for now. Adam and Cameron discuss the $236 billion trade deficit between th...

LIVE: Green Futures in the Age of Trump w/ Kojo Koram, Nick Dearden & Maria Finnerty 22.06.2025

Podcast : Macrodose (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : LIVE: Green Futures in the Age of Trump w/ Kojo Koram, Nick Dearden & Maria Finnerty Pub date : 2025-05-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Last week, Macrodose returned to SPACE4 for another live show, looking at the future of global political economy under the shadow of...

The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax Breaks (with Samantha Jacoby) 22.06.2025

Podcast : Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax Breaks (with Samantha Jacoby) Pub date : 2025-05-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization With Trump’s second major tax bill clearing committee and heading to the House floor—packed, as promised, wi...

Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon Shock 08.06.2025

Podcast : Odd Lots (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon Shock Pub date : 2025-05-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization There's been a lot of talk recently about parallels between Donald Trump's economic policies and the Nixon Shock of the early 1970s. That was when the former presid...

Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!) 19.05.2025

Podcast : Past Present Future (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!) Pub date : 2025-05-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in pa...

Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024) 19.05.2025

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024) Pub date : 2025-05-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shape...

Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025) 08.05.2025

Podcast : New Books in Public Policy (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025) Pub date : 2025-04-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth...

#331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari Eloranta 08.05.2025

Podcast : The Road to Now (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : #331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari Eloranta Pub date : 2025-04-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization America's role in the world is 'changing' and as much as things look new, we've seen a lot of this before. Economic Historian Jari Eloranta joins us to pu...

Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey 25.04.2025

Podcast : Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey Pub date : 2025-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, " Digitizing the Fisc ." During our conv...

Crisis Point: Crisis in Economic Thought w/ Matthew Watson 13.04.2025

Podcast : SPERI Presents... Episode : Crisis Point: Crisis in Economic Thought w/ Matthew Watson Pub date : 2025-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Long Depression spanned the 1870s into the 1890s, characterised by a prolonged squeeze on capitalist profits, deflation, protectionism and class conflict. How were the harms of this peri...

#195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory Doctorow 09.04.2025

Podcast : The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : #195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory Doctorow Pub date : 2025-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Patricia and Christian talk with author and activist Cory Doctorow about capitalism, culture and… [checks notes] marshmall...

Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William Palen 24.03.2025

Podcast : In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William Palen Pub date : 2025-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, a...

The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic 18.03.2025

Podcast : theAnalysis.news (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic Pub date : 2025-03-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jane D’Arista walks us through a comprehensive analysis of a global economy flooded with US dollar liabilities, economies bound to damaging export-led growth models, and...

Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in History 06.03.2025

Podcast : PUSHBACK Talks (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in History Pub date : 2025-02-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What happens when Elon Musk's anti-union Tesla meets Sweden's powerful labor movement? Since October 2023, Swedish workers have maintained the country...

Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman 01.03.2025

Podcast : OCCUPY! An Unfinished Uprising (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman Pub date : 2025-02-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We discuss the influence of Karl Marx in American politics and the continued relevance of Marxism today. Andrew's civic action toolkit recommendations are: For...

Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser 20.02.2025

Podcast : Daily News Episode : Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser Pub date : 2025-02-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The world is facing multiple crises simultaneously: Climate change, the rise of authoritarian movements, and the exploitation of labour from the Global South, among others. Professor of philoso...

Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik 14.02.2025

Podcast : The Economics Show (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik Pub date : 2025-02-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tariffs have historically been an important tool of industrial policy. They were used in the last century by east Asian nations to promote infant industries, a...

Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024) 07.02.2025

Podcast : New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024) Pub date : 2025-01-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of...

The Break Down: Economic Legacies of Empire w/ Kojo Koram 29.01.2025

Podcast : Macrodose (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Break Down: Economic Legacies of Empire w/ Kojo Koram Pub date : 2025-01-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the media, the importance of the legacies of empire and colonialism are often dismissed, with the public conversation often centring on the "culture war" ele...

The Break Down: Capitalism Without Growth? w/ Hans Stegeman 22.01.2025

Podcast : Macrodose (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Break Down: Capitalism Without Growth? w/ Hans Stegeman Pub date : 2025-01-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Politics is increasingly polarised, but if there’s one thing politicians of all major parties can agree on, it’s growth — that their political rivals failed t...

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