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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economic consequences of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea to global trade (1:46) and a recent report from the New York Times suggesting the Biden administration in the US is looking to take action on profiteering by US food suppliers (10:20).

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On this week’s Macrodose Nick Bano gives an alternative perspective on the housing crisis. Throwing out the usual talk of supply, demand, and financialisation, and instead focusing on the underlying dynamic that is actually responsible for producing property values - the relationship between landlords and tenants.

Nick is a writer and a Barrister who specialises in representing homeless people, residential occupiers, and destitute and migrant households. His debut book Against Landlords: How to solve the housing crisis is set to be published at the end of March 2024. Pre-order your copy here tinyurl.com/yau2us7v

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Welcome to this very first episode of Macrodose Roundtable, the show where we go in depth with some of the brightest minds from the world of economics and ecology. Macrodose roundtables are an opportunity to expand some of the ideas introduced in our main show, in a longer form, multi-guest format.

Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe and looks at the political economy of Palestine. We situate Palestine in the wider context of the global economy, and hear what daily life looks like for Palestinian people: their work, their access or lack thereof to goods and services, and places to live or to be safe. We also speak about the economic pressures that people around the world have used to try to bring justice for the Palestinian people.

Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatisation, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank and he is the author of Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, published by Duke University Press in 2021.

Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and her new little book, the Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack Books 2024) is being released in February.

Sarah:  sarahljaffe.com

Work Won't Love You Back

Belabored: General Strike in Palestine with Riya Al-Sanah

Kareem: Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

Combined and Uneven Catastrophe: an interview with Kareem Rabie at the Baffler

On Israel's Settler-Democratic Reform, Kareem Rabie and Nicola Perugini

Laleh: Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

The Corporeal Life of Seafaring

Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

“To Reach Across Boundaries": Laleh Khalili Talks Solidarity and Global Trade, at Public Books

Books/Articles We Mentioned:

Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini

The Human Right to Dominate by Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development by Sara Roy

Sara Roy at the Journal for Palestine Studies

The Long War on Gaza, by Sara Roy at the New York Review of Books

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia

On this week’s Macrodose Yanis Varoufakis provides the compelling argument that capitalism has been killed and replaced by a new economic system - Technofeudalism.

Yanis is an economist, politician, formerly Greece’s finance minister and author of several books, including most recently Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism. You can grab a copy via our reading list linked below.

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On this week’s Macrodose Nick Dearden takes us on a deep dive into the the history of the pharmaceutical industry - asking how it became the leviathan it is today, why it has been able to assert its unchecked geopolitical influence across the world, and whether there is anything that can be done to loosen its grip on global health.

Nick is the director of Global Justice Now, and a campaigner on issues of Global Justice for over two decades. He is also author of “Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health”, published by Verso Books in October last year. Grab your copy here: tinyurl.com/5a8am2zx

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On this week’s Macrodose Dalia Gebrial takes us on a deep dive into the gig economy (1:54). What are the real costs of the platform promise? Who is losing out, why and how? And what explains its meteoric rise?

Dalia Gebrial is lecturer at King's College London and co-host of Novara Live at Novara Media. Her research focuses on race, work and technology.

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On this week’s Macrodose we bring you our second and final holiday special before we return to the regular show next week. We’ve picked 3 more of our favourite stories from the last year. First, should we worry about government debt (0:44)? Second, is Brexit to blame for food shortages (7:37)? And finally a look at the real environmental cost of cryptocurrencies (14:28).

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On this week’s Macrodose we bring you a selection of our favourite stories of the last year. First, from “planetary boundaries” to doughnut economics - are there quantifiable limits to our exploitation of nature (0:40), next Greedflation - what is it and what are the mainstream missing (7:09) and finally a listener question - Universal Basic Income vs Universal Basic Services (14:11).

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On this week’s Macrodose, Asad Rehman takes us on a journey through COPs past (1:28), present (8:07) and future (14:13). 

Asad has attended a staggering 15 COPs and was in attendance this year at COP28, helping coordinate the global climate justice movements. He is also the Director of War on Want, a London based charity challenging the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through partnership with social movements in the UK, and across the Global South. 

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On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how interest rates have been impacting the UK economy (1:10), the growing risks of climate change to global health (10:08) and the decision to host COP in Azerbaijan next year (14:11).

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