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Episode 130: Charlie Whinney (IG @charliewhinneystudio) is an artist in the UK who makes environmental art projects and sculptures and specializes in bending wood (www.charliewhinney.com). In this episode, we talk about our varying views, worries and hopes for the world.

Sustainability and the Laws of Thermodynamics:

https://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/sustainability-and-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-a-primer/

Episode 129: Apologies for some technical glitches; they go away after awhile. In this episode, David talks with Ajay and Sebastian about Rethinking Markets in Modern India (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762533), a book they co-edited with two other academics. In this conversation, David learned that the most important element for rethinking is the role of social norms, relations and embeddedness in markets that are rarely 100% transaction oriented.

Ajay Gandhi is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University. From 2011 to 2017, he was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He has conducted research primarily in urban India, and has published articles and book chapters on migration, materiality, space, the state, and transactional forms.

Sebastian Schwecke (https://mwsibo.hypotheses.org/people-new/dr-sebastian-schwecke) received his Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 2010 in political science with a study on the political economy of Hindu nationalist and Islamist movements. Before joining Max Weber Foundation (where he's now the head of the India branch office), he was an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His main interests relate to the study of markets and exchange, credit/debt and speculation, extra-legality, uncertainty, trust, hope, calculability, and reputation as well as labour and skill.

Moneylending article

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/india-lending-apps.html

David's review or Era of Darkness

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=516

Episode 128: Chris Perry originally qualified as an engineer before he studied economics (PhD, University of Stirling, 1976). He worked for World Bank for more than twenty years, allmost entirely on irrigation and water resources topics, spending ten of those years in India. After the World Bank, he was at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka for five years, from whence he “retired” but he’s still busy, having been an Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Water Management for five years, and continuing to work on other research and projects.

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Chris's paper on water management

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.754618

David's All in Auctions paper

https://www.kysq.org/pubs/AiA_Final.pdf

Episode 127: Sunčica Vujić is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, and a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. Her areas of expertise are applied econometrics and labour economics, focussing on research questions in economics of education, crime, gender, health, fertility, migration, Brexit, labour market discrimination and pro-social behaviour. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the VU Amsterdam.

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Manahmanah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ&t=6s

The real MA-NA-MA degree in Belgium

https://www.onderwijskiezer.be/v2/hoger/hoger_manamas.php|

Brexit and hate crime paper:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp13902.pdf

Featured on the Economics Observatory: https://www.economicsobservatory.com/did-the-vote-for-brexit-lead-to-a-rise-in-hate-crime

"Ciaokes" (local slang):

http://www.antwerps.be/woord/112

Episode 126: Aaron Salzberg is the Director of the Water Institute at UNC (https://waterinstitute.unc.edu). The goal of the Water Institute is to contribute to a more water secure world through research, policy, and practice. Prior to joining UNC, Aaron served as the Department of State’s first Special Coordinator for Water where he managed the development and implementation of U.S. foreign policy on drinking water and sanitation, water resources management, and transboundary water issues. In this role, he led the development of the first U.S. government Global Water Strategy and served as the Department’s lead representative on international water issues. He currently advises on issues related to water security, access to drinking water and sanitation, and conflicts related to shared waters. Aaron has a Ph.D. in Genetic Toxicology and a MS in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Links to a few topics mentioned:

Surface Water and Ocean Topography

https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SWOT

Water data hub

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/03/the-water-data-hub-is-live/

Flood insurance fails

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/09/so-what-now-america/

"Two-thirds of the longest rivers no longer flow freely"

(1) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/worlds-free-flowing-rivers-mapped-hydropower

(2) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/graphics/see-which-of-the-worlds-10-longest-rivers-still-run-free

Episode 125: Angy Odysseos (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angy-odysseos/) graduated from LUC in 2018, majoring in World Politics. Since then she worked in communications and digital media at Marcus Evans, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Italy, and is currently working in Europe Corporate Communications at Boeing.

Note to listeners: Due to past mis-numbering, “episode number” was not the same as the "number of episodes". Thus, I have dropped numbers 119-124 and this episode (#125) follows episode #118 with Guillermo Donoso. Sorry for the confusion!

Episode 118: Guillermo Donoso works at the Water Law and Economics Center and Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students on Water Economics and Management and Natural Resource Economics. He specialises on water allocation, collective water management, urban water economics and policy, water use efficiencies. Prof Donoso also is a board member of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and a member of Stockholm’s World Water Week’s Scientific Programme Committee. He was Dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the Catholic University of Chile between 1998 and 2007.

Guillermo's research page:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-4787

Urban water pricing in Chile: cost recovery, affordability, and water conservation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310839417_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile_cost_recovery_affordability_and_water_conservation_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile

Chilean water markets as a water allocation mechanism

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282158199_Chilean_Water_Rights_Markets_as_a_Water_Allocation_Mechanism

Análisis Crítico de las Políticas Aplicadas en Latinoamérica en el Sector Agua y Saneamiento

https://kysq.org/docs/Ana%CC%81lisis_cri%CC%81tico.pdf

Episode 117: Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Prior to joining LUC she was Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of History in Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in exploring how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms (like walls, public squares, markets, museums and third spaces) and through urban aesthetics (graffiti and street art). Studying the politics of belonging has led her to an interest in borders, particularly in relation to counter-hegemonic ideas and practices of citizenship and care. Her portfolio at LUC is to expand the inter- and cross- disciplinary aspects of the programme. In relation to this, she is drawn to thinking about the limits of disciplinary forms of knowledge and teaching in the search for a more socially and environmentally just university.

Recently she has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food.

https://lucthehague.academia.edu/dvicherat

- Valeria Mazzucato The Value of Everything

https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-value-of-everything

- Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

- David Graeber On Bullshit Jobs

https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

- Kae Tempest On Connection

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/25/on-connection-by-kae-tempest-review-persuasive-and-profound

David's post: Keynes on productivity and leisure

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992

Episode 116: Maranie Staab is an independent photographer and journalist.

Motto: Be good to each other.

https://www.maranierae.com

https://www.instagram.com/maranierae

https://twitter.com/maranierae

https://www.patreon.com/maranierae

Maranie's last appearance on JT:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/33-maranie-staab-empowers-the-marginalized

Episode 115: Chris Jeffords is an Associate Professor of Economics at IUP in Indiana, PA (US). His research focuses on the intersection of environmental and natural resource economics, environmental rights (both of humans and of nature), and (constitutional) law and economics. His solo and co-authored interdisciplinary research has appeared in multiple outlets including Kyklos, Empirical Economics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environment and Development, Review of Social Economy, and Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-jeffords-8a1a78132/

https://chrisjeffords.weebly.com/

Procedural Environmental Rights:

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/GLEP_a_00445

Substantive Environmental Rights and Environmental Outcomes:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/kykl.12112

Working Paper on Substantive Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development Outcomes

https://chrisjeffords.weebly.com/job-market-paper.html

"Water rights and human rights: The poor will not need our charity if we need their water"

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1549570

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/12/gasland-the-review/

Whanganui river

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whanganui_River