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

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Adom Getachew on the Life and Work of Eric Williams

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2021/09/08

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. Her first book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in

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James Robinson on the Origins of the Industrial...

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2021/09/02

James Robinson is an economist and political scientist. He is currently the Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. Robinson has conducted influential research in the field of political and economic development and the factors that are the root causes of conflict. His work explores the underlying relationship between poverty and the institutions of a society and how institutions emerge

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Cory Doctorow on Monopolies

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2021/08/25

Cory Doctorowis a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the editor ofPluralisticand the author of young adult novels like LITTLE BROTHER and HOMELAND and novels for adults like ATTACK SURFACE and WALKAWAY, as well as nonfiction books like HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los

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Tabari Bomani, Bill Stroud and Bob Lubetsky on...

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2021/08/19

Tabari Bomani is the principal at Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice in Brooklyn. William (Bill) Stroud was the founding principal of two New York City public schools and is an instructional leader and trainer. Bob Lubetsky is Clinical Professor in Educational Leadership at The City College of New York.

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Camila Vergara on the Constitutional Convention in Chile

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2021/08/12

Camila Vergara is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. Her research combines a critical interpretation of modern and contemporary political thought, grounded on the material organization of power, and a normative political theory guided by a radical republican critique of procedural theories of justice. By focusing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination, her work is an economically engaged political philosophy

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Rick Rowden on the History and Future of the...

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2021/08/05

Rick Rowden is Senior Economist at Global Financial Integrity and Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University. He completed his PhD on India-Africa economic relations in the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. His academic areas of specialization are International Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE) and development economics, and he has expertise in the long-term national economic development

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Pritish Behuria on The Opportunism of Global...

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2021/07/29

Pritish Behuria is a Lecturer in Politics, Governance & Development at The University of Manchester. Pritish Behuria’s research operates at the intersection of development studies, comparative politics and international political economy. He is a political economist, trained in classical and heterodox political economy. He takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the challenges associated with late development under 21st Century Globalisation. He completed his PhD in Development Studies

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Mid-Summer Reading List

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2021/07/27

Here’s what we are reading (in the Catskills) at A Correction. Fiction:The NetanyahusCape MayThe CommittedLittle Fires EverywhereThe Glass HotelHow Much of These Hills Is GoldThe Cold MillionsNothing to See HereNon-Fiction:Capitalism and Slavery The Darker NationsHow To Hide An EmpireThe United States of WarThe Jakarta MethodBlack Skin, White MasksTrick Mirror

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Basil Oberholzer on Development Without Currency...

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2021/07/22

Basil Oberholzer is an economist with an emphasis on macroeconomics and monetary systems, an area he extensively researched on during his Ph.D. in macroeconomics and monetary policy at the University of Fribourg. His research has led him to publications in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics and ecological economics. He is currently working as an economist at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment where he manages projects on topics such as ecosystem services, cost of inaction

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Divya Kirti and Dalya Elmalt on the Limits of...

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2021/07/14

Dalya Elmalt is a Research Officer in the IMF Research Department. Previously, she worked at NYU Stern School of Business as a Junior Research Scientist. Her research interests include public economics, and corporate and climate finance. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Chicago.Divya Kirti is an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests include financial intermediation,

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Stefanie K. Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral...

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2021/07/09

Stefanie K. Dunning is associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. She is author of Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Signs, and several other journals and anthologies. She sometimes publishes under the pen name Zeffie Gaines.Listen to her podcast: Black to Nature

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Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco on Ocean Renewable Energy

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2021/07/05

Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco joined the Energy Studies Institute (National University of Singapore) in December 2020. She has nearly a decade of working experience in research and development, multi-project coordination and administration, and event organization. Her academic research includes energy security, renewable energy technology development in Southeast Asia, and sustainability studies. She previously worked at the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) as the

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Arun Kumar on Philanthrocapitalism

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2021/06/26

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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Professor Donald A. Grinde Jr. on the Native American...

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2021/06/21

Professor Grinde is a member of the Yamassee Nation, whose research and teaching have focused on Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history, U.S. Indian policy since 1871, Native American thought, and environmental history. He has written extensively on these topics, including authoring or co-authoring books such as “the Encyclopedia of Native American Biography,” “Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy, Chief of the Iroquois”, “The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation,” “Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and

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Amir Lebdioui on the Myth of the "Free-Market...

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2021/06/17

Amir Lebdioui is the Canning House Research Fellow based at LACC at the London School of Economics.His research lies at the crossroads between industrial policy, natural resource management and the sustainable development agenda. As a result, his research has focused on the political economy of resource-based development, export diversification strategies, and green industrial policy in the context of renewable energy development and climate change. In addition to preparing a number of journal

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Fred Turner on Seeing Silicon Valley

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2021/06/09

Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books: Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America (with Mary Beth Meehan); L’Usage de L’Art dans la Silicon Valley; The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; and Echoes of Combat: The

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Gerald Horne on the American Revolution

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2021/06/05

Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He has also written extensively about the film industry. Dr. Horne received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. from Princeton

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Juan Cole on Israel and Palestine (and why a...

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2021/05/29

Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three and a half decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. He is also the author of The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East (2014); Engaging the Muslim World (2009); Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007); and many

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Andre Pagliarini on Anti-Corruption and Brazilian...

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2021/05/26

Andre Pagliarini was a visiting assistant professor of modern Latin American history at Brown University in 2018–19 and just finished a lectureship at Dartmouth College. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on twentieth-century Brazilian nationalism.

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

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2021/05/19

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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