A Correction Podcast

We talk with Matthew Thompson about radical municipalism. Matthew Thompson is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool. His fellowship, which commenced in September 2018, was awarded for a project entitled ‘Reimagining the City: New Municipalism and the Future of Economic Democracy’.

We speak with George Souvlis about “Europe’s first partisan.” George Souvlis is a freelance writer and teaches at the University of Thrace, Department of Political Science.

We speak with Ilaria Cozzaglio about populism. Ilaria Cozzaglio is a Research Associate at the Research Centre 'Normative Orders', Goethe University Frankfurt.

We speak with Nathan Nunn about the historical origins of inequality. Nathan Nunn is Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in political economy, economic history, economic development, cultural economics, and international trade.

We discuss the economic effects of the 14th century Black Death and 17th century plagues with Guido Alfani. Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University where he is also a Fellow of Dondena Centre and of IGIER. He is an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York) and a Research Fellow of CEPR. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and of Genus. He is also the organizer of the international scientific network EI-Net (Economic Inequality Network).

We talk to Laura Redford about how we can make history more exciting for our students. Laura Redford is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at BYU.

Ernest and Lev speak with Ian Marvy about the political economy of food (and so much more). This is one of our favorite episodes of the year. Thank you Ian! Ian Marvy was the co-founder and Executive Director of Added Value. Prior to founding Added Value, Ian spent 15 years organizing youth to become a positive force for social change in post-industrial cities and towns like Holyoke, Massachusetts, Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also spent two years in New York designing service-learning programs for youth caught up in the juvenile justice system.

We speak with Alan Lightman about the ways COVID-19 might change us for the better. Alan Lightman is a writer and physicist who teaches at MIT. His latest books are Three Flames, and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine.

We speak with Peter Hudis about the life and ideas of the great Marxist thinker. Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College and author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012) and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto, 2015). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Press, 2004) and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso, 2013).

We speak with Wendy Liu about her new book. Wendy Liu is a former startup founder who now writes about the political economy of the tech industry and why tech workers need to unionize. You can find more of her work here.

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