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A Correction is an economics podcast that seeks to demystify the economy and make economics accessible.

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Margot Luftig Interviews Lev Moscow about Media,...

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2023/08/26

This is a very special episode. Margot was Lev’s student and is now attending Northwestern University. She is the host of the excellent podcast Not An Expert: A Teen's Take On Life, Identity, and Politics. Margot has generously allowed us to post her most recent episode here. It is a lot of fun!

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Best of: Peter Hudis on How Rosa Luxemburg Can Help...

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2023/08/14

Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College and author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Press, 2004) and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso, 2013).

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Best of: Lauren Sandler on Homelessness

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2023/07/31

Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is the bestselling This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home, a work narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New York. It was named a Notable book of 2020 by the New York Times. Lauren is the author of two previous books, the bestselling One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being OneandRighteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement.Lauren's

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Best of: Arun Kumar on Philanthrocapitalism

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2023/07/20

Arun Kumar is a Lecturer in International Management at the University of York.Previously trained in architecture and development management, he worked for a number of years as an independent researcher and consultant/advisor with leading aid agencies, NGOs, independent research centres, policy think-tanks, and human rights activists in South Asia. Tired of travelling and writing reports, he returned to academia in 2012. After completing his PhD at the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology

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Timothy Weaver on Opportunity Zones (and how we can...

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2023/07/01

Timothy Weaver is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany (SUNY) and author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Best of: Fiori Berhane on the Mediterranean Sea as A...

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2023/06/28

We talk with Fiori Berhane about migration. Fiori Berhane broadly researches the ways in which African refugees challenge discursive and legal-juridical frameworks that undergird the Central Mediterranean crossing. In particular, she studies the ways in which Eritrean refugee activists engage with colonial, post-colonial and neo-colonial policies and embedded histories in Italy within efforts to redress multi-modal violence– that which takes place in their country of origin, transit and settlement

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Best of: Aviva Chomsky on Biden's Central American Plan

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2023/06/20

Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (April 2021).

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Best of: Nathan Nunn on The Roots of Global Inequality

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2023/06/08

We speak with Nathan Nunn about the historical origins of inequality. Nathan Nunn is Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in political economy,economic history, economic development, cultural economics, and international trade.

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Joseph Margulies Has a Plan to Stop Gentrification

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2023/05/25

Joseph Margulies is Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University. He was Counsel of Record in Rasul v. Bush (2004), involving detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, and in Geren v. Omar and Munaf v. Geren (2008), involving detentions at Camp Cropper in Iraq. His books includeGuantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power andWhat Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity.

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Best Of: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on Racial Capitalism

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2023/05/02

This episode was originally released in September 2020.Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He completed his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles.Before that, he completed BAs in Philosophy and Political Science at Indiana University.His theoretical work draws liberally from German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, histories of activism and activist thinkers, and the Black radical

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Aabid Firdausi on the five core questions of...

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2023/04/03

Aabid Firdausi is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

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Pablo Pryluka on Juan Peron and The Legacy of Peronism

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2023/03/14

Pablo Pryluka is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. Prior to Princeton, he did his undergraduate studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and earned a master’s in History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He has received grants from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina) and the Fulbright Commission. At the same time, he was an exchange student at the Freie Universität in 2019 and took part in different collaborative projects: he was involved in

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Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo on Ghana's Financial Crisis

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2023/02/22

Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo is a PhD candidate and junior fellow at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth. He is currently completing his dissertation on the political economy of money and finance in postcolonial Ghana.

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Lev Moscow and Richard Miller On the Possibilities of...

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2023/02/08

Lev has taught International Political Economy at The Beacon School since 2005. He is also the host of A Correction Podcast. This interview is from a recent episode of our sister-podcast: Ethical SchoolsRichard retired after 28 years of teaching history in New York City middle and high school grades, including at Central Park East Secondary School, CPESS, and Beacon High School.

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Zeyad el Nabolsy on Dependency Theory, Culture and...

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2023/01/09

Zeyad el Nabolsy is an Egyptian PhD student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, working on African philosophy of culture, African Marxism, and the philosophy of science and modern African intellectual history.

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Alberto Toscano on the 100th Anniversary of the March...

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2022/12/08

Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. He is the author ofFanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea(Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.),Cartographies of the Absolute(with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015),Una visión compleja. Hacía una estética de laeconomía(Meier Ramirez, 2021),La

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Yusuf Serunkuma on the Election Trap in Africa

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2022/11/19

Yusuf Serunkuma is a columnist in Uganda’s newspapers, scholar and a playwright. In 2014, Fountain Publishers published his first play, The Snake Farmers which was received with critical acclaim in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. He is also a scholar and researcher who teaches political economy and history.

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Barry Eidlin on the Life and Work of Mike Davis

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2022/11/05

Barry Eidlin is an associate professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada.

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David and Jon Moscow on How Food Really Makes it Onto...

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2022/10/20

David Moscow is the creator, executive producer, and host of From Scratch. David made his feature film debut at age thirteen in Big, starring as the young Tom Hanks; soon after, he starred with Christian Bale in Newsies. He has appeared in dozens of films, television shows, and theater productions over a thirty-five year career. Most recently, David founded the production company UnLTD Pictures. He has executive produced more than twenty feature films, including Under the Silver Lake, To Dust,

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Sean T. Byrnes on Bretton Woods, the Group of 77 and...

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2022/09/28

Sean T. Byrnes is a writer, teacher, and historian. His work explores issues related to US politics, international relations, and global economic inequality. The author of Disunited Nations: US Foreign Policy, Anti-Americanism, and the Rise of the New Right (LSU, 2021), he is currently working on two books. The first, The United States and the Ends of Empire: Decolonization, Hierarchy, and World Order since 1776, explores how decolonization and attendant concepts of race and hierarchy have shaped US

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