PERC Podcasts

Quinn Slobodian visited Goldsmiths on 28th March to discuss his new book, Crack-up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

PERC Director, Will Davies, is joined by Prof Joseph Vogl, Humboldt University, Berlin, to discuss Vogl's new book, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present

PERC Podcast with Clara Mattei - The Capital Order by PERC Goldsmiths

PERC director Will Davies is joined by Neil Vallelly (University of Otago) to discuss his new book 'Futilitarianism: neoliberalism and the production of uselessness'. Vallelly tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility and the common good. The book at once maps the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, develops an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounts the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. In doing so, it shows that countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.

PERC director Will Davies is joined by Tim Jackson to discuss his book 'Post Growth: Life after Capitalism'.

PERC director Will Davies is joined by Jessica Whyte to discuss her book 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism'.

PERC director Will Davies is joined by Mark Blyth to discuss his new book 'Angrynomics' (co-authored with Eric Lonergan).

In this event, hosted by PERC on 8 Dec 2020, Brett Christophers joined PERC Director Will Davies to discuss his new book Rentier Capitalism. How have economies such as Britain’s become so unequal? Christophers shows that a fundamental driver is the rise of rent-seeking, in which ownership of key types of scarce assets – land, intellectual property, natural resources, digital platforms – is dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals. Profits grow increasingly linked to having rather than doing. With profound lessons for other countries subject to rentier dominance, Christophers’ examination of the UK case is indispensable to those wanting not just to understand this insidious economic phenomenon but to overcome it.

Nick Taylor interviews Sarah Knuth (Durham University) about her work on the political economy of the green economy. Knuth's work explores how urban capitalism is being shaped by climate change and how, in turn, the drive for endless accumulation shapes responses to environmental breakdown in cities. They discuss the role that devaluation takes in new accumulation strategies, the changing fortunes of US cleantech and the role of progressive policy agendas and movements in shaping a more desirable green economy.

PERC director Will Davies is joined by Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings to discuss their recently published book 'The Asset Economy' (co-authored with Melinda Cooper).