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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 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
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Adam Tooze: A Global Green New Deal
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Terrence McNally, the host of the podcast Free Forum: A World that just Might Work, interviews Rob about the current state of the world and what needs to happen for us to get out of the mess in which we find ourselves.
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
John Fullerton, the Founder of the Capital Institute, discusses the urgent need for a new paradigm in economic thinking, modeled on living systems instead of Newtonian physics, which he calls regenerative economics.
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Peter Goodman: How Davos Man Devours the World
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but has been engineered through the political process by selling us a false idea of what is possible.
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
COP26: The Paralysis from Above
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
In a replay of INET Live's webinar, following the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last December, Richard Kozul-Wright of UNCTAD, Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg, and author Maude Barlow discuss the disproportionate impact climate change has on the developing world and the ways to best address it.
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Glenn Hubbard: The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today's competitive world.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
The Pandemic‘s Opportunities and Challenges for Racial Justice
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Prosperity Now CEO Gary Cunningham talks to Rob, in a wide-ranging discussion, about the many ways in which the pandemic has affected racial justice and injustice and how we might overcome the divisions and polarizations that we currently confront.
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thomas Ferguson: Making Sense of the 2020 Presidential Election
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
INET's Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks about the research he and his collaborators Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen conducted of the 2020 election and some of overlooked factors that were at play in that election.
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang: China & U.S. - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China's Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of two gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.