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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on political economy and more. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of The Progressive, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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00:33:55

Heterodox Economists: Rosa Luxemburg

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2025/12/20

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Heterodox Economists: Rosa LuxemburgPub date: 2025-12-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAdam and Cameron continue their December series on founding Soviet thinkers. This week, they discuss the life and work of Polish German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from

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00:20:41

US "r" Us or tax sovereignty?

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2025/12/20

Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: US "r" Us or tax sovereignty?Pub date: 2025-11-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCountries can either capitulate to President Trump's tax bullying. Or come together to fight for the sovereign right to tax multinationals fairly. In this episode host Naomi Fowler explores whether US economic policy is actually good for the US economy and its people. We've done some number

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00:18:54

American Sociological Review - Fabricating...

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2025/12/20

Podcast: Sage Sociology (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: American Sociological Review - Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia's Civil WarPub date: 2025-12-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAuthor Laura Acosta discusses the article, "Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia's

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00:59:27

Learning to Love the Stagnant Order

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2025/12/04

Podcast: Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Learning to Love the Stagnant OrderPub date: 2025-11-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs your Empire feeling less than fresh? Does it feel like the modern world’s best days are behind it? Do conquest and global power politics not hit as good as they used to? Welcome to the Age of Stagnation, a time when the fruits of the Industrial Revolution can be enjoyed but not

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01:00:01

Ep 353 - Dollars for Oligarchs, Austerity for...

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2025/11/30

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ep 353 - Dollars for Oligarchs, Austerity for Argentina with Daniel KostzerPub date: 2025-11-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization** Want to take a deeper dive into this podcast? Join us on Tuesday evenings for Macro ‘n Chill, where we listen to the most recentepisode together. Ask questions, shareyour insights, or just hang with us. 8pm ET/5pm PT. Find the registration link

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00:47:18

Narrow economies vs broad economies

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2025/11/18

Podcast: Debunking Economics - the podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Narrow economies vs broad economiesPub date: 2025-11-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs it fair enough to totally write off Ricardo’s theory of competitive advantage? Certainly, President Trump isn’t an advocate, using tariffs to protect America’s domestic industries from those countries that produce stuff cheaper. A broad economy, producing a range

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00:44:58

New Thinking: Capitalist Value Chains w/ Benjamin Selwyn

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2025/11/08

Podcast: SPERI Presents...Episode: New Thinking: Capitalist Value Chains w/ Benjamin SelwynPub date: 2025-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow important is exploitation in the organisation of global supply chains? How do they drive geopolitical conflict and ecological destruction while depressing wages? How does the capitalist state drive and uphold capitalist accumulation? What does US-China rivalry mean for value chains? Benjamin Selwyn

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01:31:13

Another World Was Possible

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Dig (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Another World Was PossiblePub date: 2025-10-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFeaturing Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates, and various radical leftists all over the

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02:18:19

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: The Dig (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda CooperPub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFeaturing Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined

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00:28:34

Do we need to pay our debts?

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2025/10/24

Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Do we need to pay our debts?Pub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationContributor(s): Dr Joseph Spooner, Sara Williams | Exploring the reasons people might find themselves with problematic levels of debt, the options open to those in financial trouble and how bankruptcy laws could be used more impactfully to the benefit of both individuals and society; this month

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00:19:53

New Mexico 34: Economic Development in Late Colonial...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Distant Echoes: A History PodcastEpisode: New Mexico 34: Economic Development in Late Colonial New MexicoPub date: 2025-09-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDiscussing the changes that would be occurring to the economy in New Mexico at the tail end of the colonial period.Transcript.Music:NeoWestern Incompetech, Kevin McLeod CC-3: incompetech.comFilmusic.ioMusic: Desperados by Frank SchroeterFree download:

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00:47:52

Trade Wars, Class Wars & Globalization: Unpacking The...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Trade Wars, Class Wars & Globalization: Unpacking The Truth About Trade (featuring David Autor & Marc Palen)Pub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this kickoff to our special series on trade, Nick and Goldy unpack why trade policy isn’t just about tariffs and treaties—it’s about people, power, and priorities. For decades, the

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01:15:02

Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New...

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2025/09/19

Podcast: Accidental Gods (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen SchneiderPub date: 2025-09-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. The first is that economies have to grow to be 'successful'. The second is that government spending is limited by the tax take.

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00:56:58

From faultlines to frontlines: Neoliberalism vs....

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2025/09/19

Podcast: Transforming Society podcastEpisode: From faultlines to frontlines: Neoliberalism vs. people-powered movementsPub date: 2025-09-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn many ways neoliberalism is an extreme ideology, much like fascism and communism, but we very rarely recognise it as such. It hides behind the free-market, deregulation and privatisation, but in reality it’s quietly increasing isolation, inequality, poverty, disease and

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00:50:51

Back to Basics Series: Does the Market Really Pay You...

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2025/09/04

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Back to Basics Series: Does the Market Really Pay You What You’re Worth? (with Marshall Steinbaum and Saru Jayaraman)Pub date: 2025-08-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe’ve all heard the story: In a fair market, workers are paid exactly what they’re worth. Economists even have a name for it—marginal productivity theory. It’s neat, simple…and

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00:57:49

War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother Earth

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2025/09/04

Podcast: American Indian AirwavesEpisode: War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother EarthPub date: 2025-08-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday on American Indian Airwaves, tune in and hear William I. Robinson speak on his book, War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), the systematic militarization against immigrants in the United States, global capitalism’s crisis and how the transnational capitalist class structures

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01:23:49

The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection with Vijay RaghavanPub date: 2025-08-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. Raghavan builds on the work of

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00:35:57

Back to Basics Series: Is Economics Moral? (with...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Back to Basics Series: Is Economics Moral? (with Heather McGhee)Pub date: 2025-07-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor decades, orthodox economics has treated morality as irrelevant—as if economic decisions happen in a vacuum, separate from our values and social bonds. But that approach has failed spectacularly, giving cover to policies that divide

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00:59:32

Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land,...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)Pub date: 2025-07-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAgainst long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly

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01:44:32

(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist...

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2025/07/21

Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: (Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and TrustPub date: 2025-07-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this special episode, Rob Hawkes joins Scott Ferguson and Will Beaman to discuss his new article “(Un)conditional Openness: Towards a Neochartalist Theory of Money and Trust,” which was recently published in Money on the Left: History,

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