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The Political Economy Project Podcast

The Political Economy Project

By understanding Labor, Capital and Oligarchy, we are developing a political economy blueprint for broad based prosperity today and for future generations. politicaleconomyproject.substack.com

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Policies for Universal Prosperity with Daniel Burke

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/10/06

“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you can potentially support in a given square kilometer.“And that's what economics really is about. It's about increasing the power of labor, the power of an individual to do productive work. The way you increase that is through machine tools, through technologies, and you increase it through fundamental breakthroughs in energy.“You want to go to more intense, higher

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29:43

Life with Energy Scarcity 101

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/10/03

“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if it's a bit colder.’ But it won't be a bit colder. It might end up being a lot colder and there might be energy rationing, which is the worst case scenario. I think it will be a brutal wake up call for those people.”Irina Slav is an energy journalist who writes about energy, mining, and geopolitics for Oilprice.com with occasional gigs for Seeking Alpha and other

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52:25

Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a...

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/10/02

“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear if the economy in which that class struggle is happening isn't growing and isn't producing surplus.”Christian Parenti, Professor of Political Economy and Author of Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood FounderChristian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY (City University of New York). His books include “Radical

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92:40

America's Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin...

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/09/14

“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on people or make people degrade themselves and help them to do that. But power in history is what we're aiming for, the power of human beings to do good.”Anton ChaitkinHistorian and Author of Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850sAnton Chaitkin is a historian and author and we discuss his newest book Who

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38:17

Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith...

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/07/11

Shorting the GridShorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. The grid in these areas is managed by a regional transmission organization (RTO). Within these organizations, no group is responsible or accountable for grid reliability. The RTO areas have higher retail electricity prices, no way for ordinary citizens to influence decisions, and a more fragile grid. Using the rules

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FDR Reorganizes Banks After Collapse - March 1933

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/05/19

The Emergency Banking Act (EBA), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.On March 12, the evening before banks began to reopen, FDR gave his first fireside chat, a national radio address explaining the alterations made by the federal government on the banking industry. Due to confidence in FDR and the proposed alterations, Americans returned $1 billion to bank vaults in the following

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The Mother of all Evil is Speculation

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/05/03

They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of credit: CMO, CDOs, SIVs, ABS…So Mr. Banker starts leveraging his interest 50 to 1, with your money because he could. 40% of all American corporate profits came from financial services, not production, not anything remotely to do with the needs of the American public.The mother of all evil is speculation, leveraged debt, borrowing to the hilt, it’s a bankrupt business model, won’t work.It’s systemic, malignant and is global like cancer.It's a

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1:25

Lincoln on Liberty

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/02/17

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty…”President Abraham Lincoln, April 18, 1864The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the…people…are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself,

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The Philosophy of Political Economy Project

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/02/09

Water, food, and energy are the three necessary components sustaining civilization and are thus a universal value of every human.Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomyAnd watch the video on youtube here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit politicaleconomyproject.substack.com

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Political Economy Project - FDR Short

The Political Economy Project Podcast ·

2022/02/08

...Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment…This is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own incompetence…The unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion. They only know the rules of a generation of self seekers. They have no vision and when there is no vision the people perish. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address - 1933OverviewThe Political Economy of Labor, Capital, and

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