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Entrapped by E-Commerce
The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer
Episode 103: Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay
Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development
Ha-Joon Chang on Infant Industry Protection
Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?
The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need
The Hidden Government Debt
Working in extreme heat
South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
Apostles of Development, Episode 49
SD55 w/ Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism
Transaction Denied
The Index Fund Problemtunity
The Rise (and Fall) of the US Dollar w/ Fadhel Kaboub
/550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas
Development finance after Trump
When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America
/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley
Taeku Lee: The Billionaire Backlash
Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future
Prof. Jan Toporowski | Monetary Theory, Macroeconomics and Finance
The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey
Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money
S03E59 - Cédric Durand on Ecological Planning
Ep 368 - Socialism Unmade: Confronting Five Centuries of Capital with Ali Kadri
China’s financial system: big, powerful and still state-run
Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair
China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalance
Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson)
The Venezuela Conundrum
Ep 360 - Care Theory of Value with Emma Holten
How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino)
Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg
US "r" Us or tax sovereignty?
American Sociological Review - Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia's Civil War
Learning to Love the Stagnant Order
Ep 353 - Dollars for Oligarchs, Austerity for Argentina with Daniel Kostzer
Narrow economies vs broad economies
New Thinking: Capitalist Value Chains w/ Benjamin Selwyn
Another World Was Possible
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
New Mexico 34: Economic Development in Late Colonial New Mexico
Trade Wars, Class Wars & Globalization: Unpacking The Truth About Trade (featuring David Autor & Marc Palen)
Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider
From faultlines to frontlines: Neoliberalism vs. people-powered movements
Back to Basics Series: Does the Market Really Pay You What You’re Worth? (with Marshall Steinbaum and Saru Jayaraman)
War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother Earth
The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay Raghavan
Back to Basics Series: Is Economics Moral? (with Heather McGhee)
(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust
Nat Dyer - Economics, Power and the Real World
Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust
Trump's Trade War with Europe
LIVE: Green Futures in the Age of Trump w/ Kojo Koram, Nick Dearden & Maria Finnerty
The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax Breaks (with Samantha Jacoby)
Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon Shock
Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
#331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari Eloranta
Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey
Crisis Point: Crisis in Economic Thought w/ Matthew Watson
#195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory Doctorow
Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William Palen
The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic
Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in History
Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman
Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser
Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik
Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
The Break Down: Economic Legacies of Empire w/ Kojo Koram
The Break Down: Capitalism Without Growth? w/ Hans Stegeman
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Heterodox Economists, Part 1: Michal Kalecki
Ep 305 - Trump, the Fed & the Crypto Insurgency with Rohan Grey
National Capitalism & Death of the International Monetary System | Russell Napier
Caudillo Banking
It's the inflation, stupid w/ James Meadway
Trump, Tariffs, Trade War, And Technology — With Alan Deardorff
Three Big Wins
How Banks and Private Credit Became the Best of Frenemies
Stop the Steal: Revisiting Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America (with Brendan Ballou)
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960
54: From Fairs to Finance: The Evolution of Global Trade
Podcast: The Invisible Hand Meets the Iron Fist: State Capitalism's Global Ascent
Ep 292 - The Conflict of Class, Democracy & Universal Basic Services with Tony from 1Dime
Degrowth – Ecological Economics – Post-development: Brothers or acquaintances? - Brototi Roy, Joshua Farley and Giorgos Kallis
Money, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby
Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Underdevelopment with D. Musa Springer & Charisse Burden-Stelly
Biden’s Economic Legacy
China Is Exporting Unemployment | Michael Pettis on Global Trade Imbalances, American Capital Controls, and the End of The Chinese Growth Miracle
Jonathan Connolly, "Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Lessons from the Weimar Republic
Trade and Climate Change
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
What is...Dependency Theory?
Why are gig workers paid per task?
This is Democracy – Episode 264: Free Trade and Peace