Podcast: Economics & Beyond
Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy
Chen Long, the director of China’s Luohan Academy, talks about the ways in which information technology can jump start economic development in the developing world.
Stephanie Blankenburg
Stephanie Blankenburg: $1 Trillion Debt Relief Needed for Developing World
Doug Carmichael
Doug Carmichael: On the Need for Real Dialogue to Address the Crises of Our Time
Eisuke Sakakibara
Eisuke Sakakibara: Japan, China, India, and the US - Strategies and Tensions
Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan: The Upcoming Demographic Shift and What it Means for our Economic Future
Fred Ledley
Fred Ledley, professor at Bentley University and co-author of an INET-funded research paper on pharma research funding, discusses the research and how US taxpayers might get more social benefit out of the initial investment they put into all new pharmaceuticals released over the past decade
Louis Kuijs
Louis Kuijs, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, talks about China’s current economic strategy in the context of the pandemic and how China relates to the US, to the rest of the world, and to Hong Kong, in its effort to expand its influence
Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt: Private Equity Takeover of Healthcare
James Boyce
James Boyce: How Carbon Pricing and Carbon Dividends Address Both Climate Change and Social Justice
Robert Borosage
Robert Borosage: Trump Voters Believe He May Be A Jerk, But He's Their Jerk
John Kay and Mervyn King
John Kay and Mervyn King: Origins and Future Implications of Radical Uncertainty for Economic Thinking
Thomas Ferguson
INET鈥檚 Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks to Rob Johnson about the many ways in which money corrupts our politics, contributes to ever-greater inequality, and what can be done about it
Robert Skidelsky
Historian Lord Robert Skidelsky reads a letter that John Maynard Keynes wrote to Friedrich Hayek about 鈥淭he Road to Serfdom,鈥� and then discusses with Rob Johnson the tense relationship between the two famous economists.
Orville Schell
Orville Schell: With China, The West Is Reaping the Bitter Harvest of Imperialism
William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism
William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO鈥檚 chief economist, talks about the inadequacies of the pandemic economic rescue package and how mainstream economic theory continues to fail everyone, but especially Blacks
Thea Lee
Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy 51黑料爆料网历史事件, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America鈥檚 dysfunctional labor market.
Elaine Brown, Pt. 2
Elaine Brown Pt. 2: Music and Activism in the Struggle for Racial Justice
Michael Pettis
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
Wendy Brown
UC Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic and protests against police brutality lay bare a crisis of neoliberalism.
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear: On George Floyd and John Ruskin
Evan Osnos
New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos talks to Rob Johnson about his recent article, 鈥淗ow Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump,鈥� as well as the state of US-China relations.