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Terrence McNally, the host of the podcast Free Forum: A World that just Might Work, interviews Rob about the current state of the world and what needs to happen for us to get out of the mess in which we find ourselves.

Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.

“I was considering what I was going to do, [and] what I decided I could not do, was stay within the confines of mainstream academic economics.” Rob Johnson talks with INET Co-Founder Bill Janeway about his exciting new project at Cambridge University.

The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.

Gisele Huff, education policy specialist and president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, along with john a. powell, director of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ, talk about the motivations and process behind the soon-to-be-released report, “Convening on Automation, Opportunity, and Belonging: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society.”

Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at UMass Amherst, discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets

World Ocean Observatory founder Peter Neill talks about the dire emergency in which the world’s oceans currently find themselves in and what must be done to save them.

INET at the Trento Economics Festival 1: A dialogue between Mark Carney and William Janeway, coordinated by Robert Johnson Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them stem from a common crisis in values.

Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the US economic system has become rigged to favor the richest.

Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust? Information exchange has historically been the most powerful tool at humanity’s disposal, so what makes data different? Dr. Long Chen (Luohan Academy) discusses his latest report “Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus In The Digital Era” which is available for download at