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Expanding Economics
by CKUT 90.3fm Montreal
Bringing new ways of thinking to the dismal science. Produced in collaboration with CKUT 90.3fm Montreal.
Episodes
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The Legacy of Extraction: Resource Curse
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics podcast! In this episode, Noé and Zoya dive into the complex history and future of the natural resource trade. They explore how the wealth of developing nations—from oil in Venezuela to copper in Zambia—has been shaped by a legacy of colonial extraction and...
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Perfectly Discriminated: How Dynamic Pricing Works
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics podcast! In this episode, Noelle and Zoya pull back the curtain on dynamic pricing—the invisible force changing the cost of everything from your Uber Eats order to your next concert ticket. While traditional models suggest that shifting prices simply…
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Canadian Budget - November 2025
In this episode, Amelia and Zoya dissect the long awaited Mark Carney budget.
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The Attention "Mint"
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics podcast! In this episode, we dive into an emerging market, the attention economy. Noelle and Zoya explore how our attention is being traded like a currency by major companies and how that impacts our economy, our wellbeing, and our personal choices. They...
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Exploring the Economics of Abortion: A U.S. Case Study
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics podcast! In this episode, we dive into a complex and often overlooked aspect of abortion discourse: economics. Sasha and Zoya explore the impact of abortion policies on economic outcomes, particularly for women. They examine how access to abortion…
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Economics in Politics: Buzzwords
As the 2024 election season heats up, politicians are throwing around familiar economic buzzwords like “inflation,” “price gouging,” and “economic growth.” Behind these seemingly simple phrases lies a web of complex, interconnected issues that are often glossed over in campaign speeches. In this...
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Cannabis: A Tale of Two Markets with Dr. Tiffanie Perrault
In this episode, Sasha and Zoya explore the unique dynamic between the newly emerging legal market for cannabis and the long established black market. When faced with a choice between legal and illegal, why do some consumers still choose the latter? Together with special guest Dr. Tiffanie…
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Where are the Women in Economics?
Claudia Goldin is a labor economist at Harvard who is the most recent Nobel Laureate in economics “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. Among her many accolades and contributions, she has made history becoming the first woman to get tenure in Harvard's…
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The Sociology of Money and Paradoxical Nature of Cryptocurrencies
In this episode, Sofia shares some of her previous work in Economic Sociology, a subfield that often clashes with Neoclassical economics in its analysis of various economic phenomena. Within it, the study of money and its social meanings is a central topic and subject to widespread debate. After...
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The Politics of Green Growth with Jade Rinn
Hi everyone, and welcome back to Expanding Economics! To follow up on our last episode on Degrowth Economics, we invited Jade to discuss the attempts to implement green growth policies and how effective they are at achieving C02 reduction targets. After talking a bit about her own experience at...
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Degrowth Economics with JP Arellano
As we all grapple with the threats posed by the climate crisis, economists, politicians, and everyday people outside the ivory tower are searching for a way forward. The Degrowth movement offers a solution that challenges the traditional pursuit of perpetual economic growth as the ultimate goal…
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Feminist Economics and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism with Prof. Kristen Ghodsee
Professor Kristen Ghodsee teaches Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her ethnographic work in post-soviet countries where she studies gender relations and other legacies of 20th century communism. In her book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under...
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Ecological Economics with Michael Babcock
In this episode we are joined by Michael Babcock; Ph.D. candidate at McGill University where he studies natural resource development and teaches Ecological Economics. After taking Michael's class myself, I felt that the way I viewed the discipline of economics and the world more broadly had been...
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Armchair Armchair Economists (ft. Georges Rigas)
For the last few episodes the Expanding Economics team has been discussing inflation, crashing markets, and whatever other economic problems we uncovered along the way. This time, we wanted to hear from someone outside of the group and see how their economic perspective differs from ours. On this...
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NIMBYism and Speculation in the Canadian Housing Market
In this episode Sofia and Andrew discuss NIMBYism and why it is pervasive and harmful to the Canadian housing market. After months of consecutive record breaking highs, Canadian housing prices have finally begun to show signs of decline in response to rising interest rates, but what caused this...
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Inflation Pt. 3 - The Great Divide in Economics
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics podcast, in part three of our series on inflation, we delve into the economic history of inflation to better understand why it is a problem and how we keep getting ourselves into this situation. We discuss post-WW1 Germany, the 1970s oil crisis, and how the...
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Inflation Pt.1 - The Impacts of COVID Fiscal Spending
Welcome back to the Expanding Economics Podcast! This episode is part one of a three-part series on inflation. As inflationary pressures continue to rise throughout the world, we look at how we got here, what it signals for future economic outcomes and what economic theory does or does not have…
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The Montreal AI Agenda
Montreal is an international hub for artificial intelligence research, with the world’s largest academic AI research community. Industry has quickly followed, with leaders in big tech such as Microsoft establishing research labs in Montreal. In this episode, we unpack the current state of the…
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Divestment 101
While many universities are divesting from fossil fuels in response to the climate crisis, McGill University continues to invest about $40 million in oil and gas. The student activists at Divest McGill have been working hard since 2012 to change this, but McGill’s Board of Governors is not…
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The Erasure of Race in Economic Theory
In this episode, we dive into a topic that is ignored by many economists: the role of race and group identity in economics. We have an obligation to acknowledge how, by externalizing race, economic theory upholds racist systems and perpetuates socially unequal outcomes. Our economic status quo...
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The Economy...Doesn't Exist?
There has been a sense of urgency to restart the economy, given that measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 have simultaneously caused a major slowdown of economic activity. Some politicians, such as Lt. Governor of Texas Dan Patrick, have gone as far as promoting human sacrifice in the hopes…
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Neoclassical Economics and Global Capitalism: How Did We Get Here?
In our second episode, we spoke with Julian Karaguesian, economic history professor at McGill University. We discussed how the neoclassical school of thought came to dominate economics as we know it and shape global capitalist society at large. Get in touch at [email protected]
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The Miseducation of Economics
Most university economics students are exposed to mainly one school of economic thought: neoclassical economics. For students to have an education that promotes critical thinking and an understanding of economic events and policies, they must gain exposure to alternative perspectives, the…
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