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

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Best of: Hans-Joachim Voth on Bank Failures and the...

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2025/01/02

We talk with Hans-Joachim Voth about the link between financial crisis and Hitler’s rise to power. Hans-Joachim Voth (D.Phil, Oxford, 1996), holds the UBSChair of Macroeconomics and Financial Marketsat the Economics Department, Zurich University. He is an economic historian with interests in financial history, long-term persistence and growth, as well as political risk and macroeconomic instability. Hans-Joachim Voth is a Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics Program at CEPR (London),

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Best of: What Kind of Social Policy Does the European...

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2024/12/14

Philip Rathgeb is aLecturer(Assistant Professor)in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and anAssociated FellowintheZukunftskollegat the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and held visiting positions at Harvard University, Lund University,

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Best of: Samuel Miller McDonald on The Political...

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2024/11/13

Samuel Miller McDonald is an editor at The Trouble and Epilogue, a doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, and graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and College of the Atlantic. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among other publications. He is working on a book called PROGRESS about the history and future of progress, for William Collins and St. Martin's Press.

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Best of: Stefan Ouma on How Economics Would Change if...

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2024/10/25

Stefan Ouma holds the Chair of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth. Before that he worked as Doc and Post-Doc at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. His research interests lies in a theoretically and empirically informed economic geography of globalization and development, drawing primarily on insights from heterodox economics, political ecology, and post- and decolonial work. His overriding research goal is to rematerialize “the economy” in times of seemingly

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Best of: Juan Cole on Israel and Palestine (a primer)

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2024/10/16

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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Best of: Casey Michel on Money Laundering in America

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2024/08/07

Casey Michel, an investigative reporter based in New York City, is the author of American Kleptocracy. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Washington Post, among others.

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Best of: Srishti Yadav on the Agrarian Question in India

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2024/07/18

Dr. Srishti Yadav is an Instructor for the Economics & Society stream in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. She has a PhD in Economics from The New School in New York. Her dissertation research focuses on the political economy of development in India, investing the relationship between agrarian change and structural transformation through the framework of the Agrarian Question. Her ongoing research examines changing agrarian class relations in the face of growing

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Teddy Wayne on Class in America (and his new book The...

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2024/05/21

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novelsThe Winner(coming May 2024), The Great Man Theory, Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A former columnist for the New York Times and McSweeney’s and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington

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Delton Best of: Chen on The Carbon Coin (If you read...

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2024/05/06

Delton Chen is a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer. Delton holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. Delton has 20 years of combined experience in groundwater management, environmental impact assessments, mining, geothermal energy and climate mitigation; and he analyzed the mitigation potential of fly-ash cement and low-flow water taps for Project Drawdown. Delton is a thought-leader in the development of new public policies based

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Best of: Samuel Hughes on Ugly Buildings, Beautiful...

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2024/03/20

Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Head of Research at the Office for Place within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. His education was primarily at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. At the former he took an MA in Philosophy Politics and Economics (2013) and a B.Phil. in Philosophy (2015); at the latter he completed his PhD in Philosophy (2020). He is interested in architecture and urbanism, both on a philosophical level and at the level of

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Dennis O. Flynn on The World that Silver Created

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2024/02/24

Dennis O. Flynn is the Alexander R. Heron Professor of Economics at the University of the Pacific. He has published since 1978 dozens of essays on global monetary history, fifteen of which have been reproduced in World Silver and Monetary History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum, 1996). He has co-edited Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy (Variorum 1997), Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 1998), Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim

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Alberto Toscano on Israeli Politics

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2024/01/20

Alberto Toscano is Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is also Professor of Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought.

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Best of: Paolo Tedesco on How Marx Understood the...

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2023/12/28

Paolo Tedesco teaches history at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests include the social and economic history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, comparative agrarian history, the fate of the peasantry across different types of societies, and historical materialism.

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Mitty Owens on Cuba, Culture and Character Contra...

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2023/12/03

Millard "Mitty" Owens is the Co-Director of The People's Solar Energy Fund. Mitty's thirty year public service career includes community development finance, philanthropy, arts and social change, and organizational and leadership development. Career highlights include the Ford Foundation (program officer in economic development and program related investments), the New York City Office of Financial Empowerment (Senior Deputy), NYU’s Research Center for Leadership in Action (associate director and

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Abraham L. Newman on the Plumbing and Infrastructure...

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2023/11/06

Abraham L. Newman is professor of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization and is the co-author Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), which was the winner of the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, the 2020

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Caroline Cornier on Economic Sovereignty in Africa

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2023/10/19

Caroline Cornier has studied Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was a lecturer at the Department of Development and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel between December 2021 and September 2022 and is currently a doctoral researcher at the Global Devwlopment Institute of the University of Manchester. Her research is located at the intersection of Postcolonial Political Economy and Postcolonial Theory focusing on economic, political

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Best of: Global Social Unrest But No Revolution: Why?

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2023/10/17

We discuss why we need two internationales and a World Party with Sahan Savas Karatasli. Sahan Savas Karatasli is a global and macro-historical sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He has been extensively studying and writing on the evolution of historical capitalism, global inequality, social movements, nationalism and labor in the capitalist world economy.

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Best of: James Robinson on the Origins of the...

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2023/10/04

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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Best of: Rajesh Ramachandran on the Use of the...

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2023/09/25

Rajesh Ramachandran is a postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of economics at Heidelberg University. He completed his doctoral studies in economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. He has have previously held positions at Goethe University, as well as having been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the field of political linguistics, economics of education and social identity.

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Best of: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Explained. (I...

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2023/09/11

We speak with Gerald Epstein about MMT. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including financial crisis and regulation, alternative approaches to central banking for employment generation and poverty reduction, economists’ ethics and capital account management and capital flows and the political economy of financial markets

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