Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson

Fred Ledley: How US Taxpayers Subsidize Pharma Research and Companies Reap the Profits

Fred Ledley, professor at Bentley University and co-author of an INET-funded  research paper on pharma research funding, discusses the research and how US taxpayers might get more social benefit out of the initial investment they put into all new pharmaceuticals released over the past decade

Louis Kuijs: The Contradictions in China's Economic and Foreign Policies

Louis Kuijs, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, talks about China's current economic strategy in the context of the pandemic and how China relates to the US, to the rest of the world, and to Hong Kong, in its effort to expand its influence

Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt: Private Equity Takeover of Healthcare

Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rosemary Batt of Cornell University, talk about an INET-supported study on the dramatic impact that private equity funds are having on everyone's medical bills and on the healthcare industry as a whole.

James Boyce: How Carbon Pricing and Carbon Dividends Address Both Climate Change and Social Justice

James Boyce, Senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute, talks about the many benefits that carbon dividends and carbon pricing would have for a transition towards a greener and more equitable economy

Robert Borosage: Trump Voters Believe He May Be A Jerk, But He's Their Jerk

Robert Borosage, co-founder of the Campaign for America's Future, talks about the what went well and what did not go well at the Democratic Convention and the Democrats' failure to recognize that their own economic policies helped bring about Trump

Richard Vague: China's Greater Preparedness in the Face of Economic Crises

Richard Vague, Secretary of Banking and Securities for the state of Pennsylvania and INET board member, discusses with Rob Johnson the need for stronger economic measures, the different economic strategies of the US and China, and the dangers of enormous private debt burdens.

Yide Qiao: US and China - Competitors, Collaborators, or Enemies?

Yide Qiao, the Secretary General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation, talks about the political, economic, and military dimensions of US-China relations

John Kay and Mervyn King: Origins and Future Implications of Radical Uncertainty for Economic Thinking

John Kay, an economist at Oxford University, and Mervyn King of the London School of Economics, discuss their recently published book, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

Peter Temin: The Racist Roots of US Political and Economic Polarization

MIT economic historian Peter Temin talks to Rob Johnson about his forthcoming book, Never Together, which looks at the economic history of how Blacks have been systematically excluded from US society

Robert Dugger: An Economics for Future Generations

Rob Johnson talks to Robert Dugger, former member of the INET Board and founder of Ready Nation, about how society can safeguard its accomplishments and rights for posterity.