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00:58:18

Nat Dyer - Economics, Power and the Real World

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2025/07/21

Podcast: Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Nat Dyer - Economics, Power and the Real WorldPub date: 2025-06-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, we welcome Dr Nat Dyer, journalist, researcher and author of Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray. With clarity and wit, Nat takes us inside the story of how mainstream economics became

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01:18:43

Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust

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2025/07/01

Podcast: Matrix PodcastEpisode: Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and AntitrustPub date: 2025-06-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLarge corporations increasingly dominate markets, the flow of information, and political influence. In response, many governments have used antitrust policies in an attempt to rein in companies. Examples include investigations and cases brought by the United States and the European Union against Google, in addition

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00:59:17

Trump's Trade War with Europe

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Trump's Trade War with EuropePub date: 2025-05-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Trump administration has put on hold plans to impose a 50% tariff on all goods from Europe. While talks between the EU and US have been positive, the issue has yet to be fully resolved. In the first segment, hosts Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze look at the 236 billion dollar trade deficit

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01:12:58

LIVE: Green Futures in the Age of Trump w/ Kojo...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Macrodose (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: LIVE: Green Futures in the Age of Trump w/ Kojo Koram, Nick Dearden & Maria FinnertyPub date: 2025-05-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLast week, Macrodose returned to SPACE4 for another live show, looking at the future of global political economy under the shadow of Trump 2.0.We explored where the UK fits into this shifting global landscape, what a radical economic programme

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00:35:40

The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Empire Strikes Back—With More Billionaire Tax Breaks (with Samantha Jacoby)Pub date: 2025-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith Trump’s second major tax bill clearing committee and heading to the House floor—packed, as promised, with massive giveaways to the ultra-wealthy—we’re revisiting our timely conversation with Samantha Jacoby of the

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00:29:04

Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon Shock

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2025/06/08

Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Perry Mehrling on Trump's Echoes of the Nixon ShockPub date: 2025-05-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere's been a lot of talk recently about parallels between Donald Trump's economic policies and the Nixon Shock of the early 1970s. That was when the former president took the dollar off the gold standard, introduced hefty tariffs, and pressured the Federal Reserve to ease

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00:56:53

Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)Pub date: 2025-05-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in particular – have played in the story of globalisation. How has the Fed tried to reconcile its obligations to

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01:21:22

Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)Pub date: 2025-05-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFrom the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led

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01:04:57

Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture:...

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2025/05/08

Podcast: New Books in Public Policy (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-04-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEvery year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Although

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01:14:24

#331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari Eloranta

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2025/05/08

Podcast: The Road to Now (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: #331 The Global Economy Past & Present w/ Jari ElorantaPub date: 2025-04-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica’s role in the world is ‘changing’ and as much as things look new, we’ve seen a lot of this before. Economic Historian Jari Eloranta joins us to put NATO military spending, the looming trade war and other recent global developments in historical context. As

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01:42:53

Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan Grey

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2025/04/25

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Digitizing the Fisc with Rohan GreyPub date: 2025-04-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, "Digitizing the Fisc." During our conversation, we recount the events surrounding Elon Musk & the DOGE boys’ unconstitutional takeover of the

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00:40:21

Crisis Point: Crisis in Economic Thought w/ Matthew...

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2025/04/13

Podcast: SPERI Presents...Episode: Crisis Point: Crisis in Economic Thought w/ Matthew WatsonPub date: 2025-03-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Long Depression spanned the 1870s into the 1890s, characterised by a prolonged squeeze on capitalist profits, deflation, protectionism and class conflict. How were the harms of this period distributed between classes? What does this early crisis of capitalism tell us about the relationship

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01:19:01

#195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory Doctorow

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2025/04/09

Podcast: The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: #195 Capitalists Hate Capitalism with Cory DoctorowPub date: 2025-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPatricia and Christian talk with author and activist Cory Doctorow about capitalism, culture and… [checks notes] marshmallows! Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes:

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01:00:38

Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews...

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2025/03/24

Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Pax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William PalenPub date: 2025-03-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, about his new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press,

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01:07:43

The Failure of Global Finance is Systemic

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2025/03/18

Podcast: theAnalysis.news (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Failure of Global Finance is SystemicPub date: 2025-03-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJane D’Arista walks us through a comprehensive analysis of a global economy flooded with US dollar liabilities, economies bound to damaging export-led growth models, and vulnerable households piling up useless debts. She offers a rigorous template of policy and regulatory

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00:41:15

Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in History

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2025/03/06

Podcast: PUSHBACK Talks (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in HistoryPub date: 2025-02-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat happens when Elon Musk's anti-union Tesla meets Sweden's powerful labor movement? Since October 2023, Swedish workers have maintained the country's longest strike in a century, with solidarity spreading across Nordic countries. In this episode, Fredrik

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00:55:28

Marxism for Americans: Andrew Hartman

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2025/03/01

Podcast: Future Hindsight (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Marxism for Americans: Andrew HartmanPub date: 2025-02-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe discuss the influence of Karl Marx in American politics and the continued relevance of Marxism today. Andrew’s civic action toolkit recommendations are: Form a reading group to change your collective political consciousness Read something challenging at an intellectual,

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00:24:59

Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class:...

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2025/02/20

Podcast: Daily NewsEpisode: Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy FraserPub date: 2025-02-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe world is facing multiple crises simultaneously: Climate change, the rise of authoritarian movements, and the exploitation of labour from the Global South, among others. Professor of philosophy and politics at the New School, Nancy Fraser, says "it can’t be a coincidence" - at the root of it all is

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00:36:17

Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik

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2025/02/14

Podcast: The Economics Show (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani RodrikPub date: 2025-02-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTariffs have historically been an important tool of industrial policy. They were used in the last century by east Asian nations to promote infant industries, and are being used today by the EU to help spur the energy transition. But do Donald Trump’s threats to impose

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01:02:09

Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National...

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2025/02/07

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)Pub date: 2025-01-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks. And yet regulatory issues varied from country to country, with some

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