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Rob Johnson is not your average economist, and this is not your average economics podcast. Every week, Rob talks about economic and social issues with a guest who probably wasn’t on your Econ 101 reading list, from musicians to activists to rebel economists. A podcast of The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
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Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology, and Sustainability, talks to Rob Johnson about the real problems that the pandemic exposes and whether a Green New Deal is still achievable in this context
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Margaret Heffernan, a writer and former CEO, talks to Rob about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together, on the art of thinking about the future in the context of uncertainty
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Author and psychologist John O’Neil talks to Rob Johnson about America’s moral and educational crisis.
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Rob Johnson talks to educator Christine Passarella about her program Kids for Coltrane, and the educational value of the jazz great.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Justin Lin, Director of the National School for Economic Development in Beijing, talks to Rob Johnson about how economists can work together internationally for shared prosperity.
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Monday Jul 20, 2020
Dr. Fatima Denton, Director of the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa at the United Nations University, Ghana, talks to Rob Johnson about the need for global cooperation and coordination in the wake of the pandemic.
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, talks to Rob Johnson about the future of Chinese relations with the West, and how the former victim of Western imperialism is trying to get its revenge.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Thomas Sugrue, Professor of History at NYU, talks to Rob Johnson about why the multiracial protests against police brutality make 2020 different from 1968.
Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO’s chief economist, talks about the inadequacies of the pandemic economic rescue package and how mainstream economic theory continues to fail everyone, but especially Blacks
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America’s dysfunctional labor market.