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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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01:10:07

Our Dollar, your problem

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2026/02/15

Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Our Dollar, your problemPub date: 2026-01-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJoin us for this public lecture where Kenneth Rogoff will discuss his recently released book Our Dollar, Your Problem: An insider's view of seven turbulent decades of global finance and the road ahead.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from LSE Film and Audio Team, which is the

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00:43:03

China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalance

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2026/02/06

Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: China’s Yuan and Europe’s industry: a growing imbalancePub date: 2026-01-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of The Sound of Economics, host Yuyun Zhan is joined by Bruegel Senior Fellow Alicia García-Herrero and Jürgen Matthes of the German Economic Institute to discuss a growing concern for Europe’s economy: the undervaluation of Yuan, the Chinese

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00:46:35

Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic...

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2026/01/24

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Revisiting How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers (with Elizabeth Anserson)Pub date: 2026-01-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmericans have been told that working harder is the path to dignity, security, and success. But what if that promise was hijacked?This week, we’re revisiting our episode with Professor Elizabeth Anderson,

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00:49:23

The Venezuela Conundrum

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2026/01/18

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Venezuela ConundrumPub date: 2026-01-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhy is the United States inserting itself so aggressively with Venezuela's affairs? Trump says its about oil but that doesn't quite add up, according to Adam and Cameron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Foreign

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01:02:50

Ep 360 - Care Theory of Value with Emma Holten

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2026/01/17

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ep 360 - Care Theory of Value with Emma HoltenPub date: 2025-12-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLet’s face it, even “good” macro talk can fall into the trap of treating the economy like a tidy spreadsheet while real lives get crushed in the margins. To help us peer beneath the covers, Steve invited Emma Holten, a Copenhagen-based political economist to talk about her book

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00:39:23

How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do...

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2026/01/17

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: How Economists Cause Harm Even as They Aspire to Do Good (with George DeMartino)Pub date: 2025-12-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor more than a century, economists have told us they’re simply “describing the world as it is.” But what if their theories aren’t neutral — and are quietly doing enormous harm?This week, we’re joined by economist

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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....

The Progressive ·

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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