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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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Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Kishore Mahbubani: The Return of Asia in the 21st Century
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the rise of plutocracy and Asia's renewed rise - after having fallen behind in the last 200 years - to its growing sense of dynamism, optimism, and diversity.
This is the 200th episode of the podcast Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson.
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
UNCTAD Director Richard Kozul-Wright and Kevin Gallagher, Global Development Policy professor at Boston University, discuss their book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods. Ever since the post-war economic order was dismantled beginning in the 1980s, a re-design of the global economic order has become increasingly urgent in light of the social and ecological crises that we face.
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Peter Barnes: The Problem of Ownership in Capitalism
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Peter Barnes, the entrepreneur and author of the recently published book, Ours: The Case for Universal Property, talks about how new conceptions of property - a universal commons - could fundamentally transform capitalism to make it more ecologically and socially sustainable.
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Michael Spence: We Are Entering a New Economic World
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Economics Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discusses the profound changes that are rippling through the global economy as we emerge from the COVID recession, where economic growth will have to rely more on productivity gains instead of the incorporation of excess labor capacity and what this would mean for countries around the world.
Luohan Academy event referenced in the episode: Opportunities and Challenges for an Aging Society | Frontier Dialogue #9
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Sarita Mohanty: Investing in Compassion
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
The tradition of abandoning our elderly populations needs to end. Sarita Mohanty talks with Rob Johnson about her work at the SCAN Foundation, and the critical importance of combating "ageism" to strengthening our society. Learn more: https://www.thescanfoundation.org/
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Anand Giridharadas: How We Are Going to Live Together Is Up for Grabs
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Anand Giridharadas, writer and author of the book, Winners Take All, discusses the multiple crises we are currently facing, how they could provide an impetus for real change, and how US and global elites are failing to live up to the challenge.
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Patrick Lawrence: The US Doesn’t Pursue Foreign Policy, Only Security Policy
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Patrick Lawrence, writer and executive editor of The Scrum, analyzes the roots of US foreign policy failures, how these are reflected in the current confrontation with Russia, which can be found the US establishment's weddedness to power and to an unwillingness to see the other's perspective.
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Max Lawson: The Pandemic’s Billionaire Variant
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Max Lawson, head of Oxfam International's Inequality Policy program, discusses Oxfam's latest inequality report, "Inequality Kills," which highlights the extreme growth in wealth of the billionaire class during the pandemic and how this has had a direct effect on the health and survival of the world's bottom 50%.
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Ajay Chhibber: Unshackling India for Economic Revival
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and India's first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of Minister of State in 2013-14, discusses his co-authored book, Unshackling India, about what needs to happen for India's economy to take off.
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower and investigative journalist Wendell Potter discusses the many ways in which the private health insurance system of the US is not serving anyone well except the insurance companies' owners