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The Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era started the retreat of the state. Privatisation and deregulation meant power was handed over to corporations and markets. Now that neoliberalism has run its course, will there be a return of the state? Listen to Owen Bennett Jones in conversation Graeme Garrard. Garrard is the author of The Return of the State: And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth and Happiness (Yale UP, 2022).

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.

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Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the gains?

Speaker: Stephanie Barrientos, Manchester University

Discussant: Kate Meagher, LSE
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE

David Fields talks to Steve about “Economists for Palestine,” the statement released by the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE). They emphasize economists’ responsibility to take a stand against the genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinians. They look at the connection between Zionism and the global capitalist system, debunking misinformation while highlighting the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

We at Macro N Cheese urge our listeners to circulate the statement. https://urpe.org/2023/11/08/economists-for-palestine/

David Fields is a political economist from Utah; his work centers on the intricacies concerning the interactions of foreign exchange & capital flows with economic growth, fiscal & monetary policy, and distribution, whereby critical attention is paid to the notion of endogenous money. He also delves into the political economy of regional development to study patterns with respect to the nature of housing, social stratification, and community planning.

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Çinla, François, and Jennifer are joined by Glory M. Liu, assistant director for the Center for Economy and Society and assistant research professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss her new book, Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.

Sasha Breger Bush is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado Denver, who studies international political economy, and the author of Derivatives and Development: A Political Economy of Global Finance, Farming, and Poverty. Prof. Bush has recently sounded the alarm on what she calls the whole world debt crisis. We discuss her work, as well as recent public debates about debt and deficits in the United States.  

Air Date 11/14/2023

The Supreme Court turned the table on average, working people back in the 70s when they empowered wealthy individuals and corporations to have an outsized role in our politics. Now we're trapped in the reality that shift in power created and are dreaming of a better way to manage our economic and political systems for the benefit of all people.

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Citizens United Has Destroyed America Why Is Nobody Talking About It - Thom Harmann Program - Air Date 10-27-23

If America is to recover any semblance of meaningful democracy in our country, we have to cut out the cancer of big money in our political system. We MUST overturn Citizens United.

Ch. 2: How Things Work Congress's Revolving Door - Jim Hightower's Lowdown - Air Date 11-9-23

Hear it? What's that sound? "Whoop-whoop-whoop." Oooo, it's Washington's revolving door, allowing corporate interests to come directly inside Congress to pervert public policy.

Ch. 3: Corporate Bullsh*t Legal Bullsh*t - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 11-11-23

Donald Cohen discusses the long history of corporate propaganda covering for corporate greed, and his new book Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America.

Ch. 4: What Socialism Needs to Succeed - Economic Update - Air Date 10-32-23

This week's episode covers the crisis of today's left, the need to build upon and go beyond successful socialism of the 19th and 20th century, the state and micro focus on the workplace, and democratizing workplaces.

Ch. 5: Redefining Wealth–with Aisha Nyandoro - OFF-KILTER - Air Date 11-2-23

As Aisha Nyandoro—CEO of Springboard to Opportunity and architect of the Magnolia Mother's Trust—argues in her recent Tedx Talk, it's time to redefine wealth in the United States.

Ch. 6: Prof. Richard Wolff Why Not Democratize Big Auto Companies - The Zero Hour - Air Date 10-28-23

Prof Wolff joins Zero Hour with RJ Eskow to discuss the recent agreement between the Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers and how it relates to the larger issues of labor, capitalism, and democratizing workplaces.

Ch. 7: Inside West Virginia's New Economic Bill of Rights–with Troy N. Miller - OFF-KILTER - Air Date 11-9-23

For this week's episode, Rebecca sat down with Troy N. Miller, who's long served as the Off-Kilter podcast's beloved "man behind the curtain," aka executive producer.

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Ch. 8: How Media's Use of 'The Economy' Flattens Class Conflict - Citations Needed - Air Date 11-1-23

Kim Kelly joins to discuss the term "the economy," how and why metrics reflect interest of capital- GDP, the DOW - which are positioned as more important indicators of economic strength versus the needs of the average person.

Ch. 9: Redefining Wealth–with Aisha Nyandoro Part 2 - OFF-KILTER - Air Date 11-2-23

FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 10: Final comments on how a shifting baseline obscures the inequity of our economic system

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In today's show, I'm receiving Timothee Parrique, Dr. in economics at Lund University. He is a rising scholar, who made a big splash at the European Commission Beyond Growth conference. His book on Degrowth has sold more than 35,000 copies. He is a brilliant guy and a true artist with words.

We talk about:

-Why Timothée thinks Climate Tech VC and green growth are fairy tales

-Degrowth as an alternative, what does that even mean?

-How to engage the Top 10% and motivate them to embrace a new narrative

-Whether a Covid-scale catastrophe will be the triggering event for our system to move away from Capitalism

-Why the well-being economy should be our collective future

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Learn all the insights from the top Climate Tech Founders and Investors. Listen to the stories behind the startup successes, understand the drivers of investment decisions, and become a true Climate Insider.

Check us out at: https://www.climateinsiders.co

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ABOUT THE GUEST:

Timothée Parrique (pronounced “tea-mo-tay pa-rick”) is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).

He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.

Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of his PhD dissertation.

Tim frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling Debunked – Evidence and Arguments against Green Growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

Tim is passionate about the philosophy of science and academic writing. When not ranting about economics stuff, Tim likes to surf, climb, and do backflips on his mountain bike – yes, it’s possible. (He also spends more time than he would like to admit playing chess online.)

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SHOW NOTES:

00:09 – Intro

00:55 – Who is Timothy?

02:03 – Is Climate Tech BS?

05:30 - The Quest for the Holy Grail of Energy

08:14 – Is green growth really possible?

13:24 - The Need for a New Narrative in Climate Change

18:32 - Rediscovering the Sweetness of a Slower Economy; Does it Actually Work?

24:03 – How do we convince the top 10% that degrowth is the way to go?

28:58 – What is the plan? What is the first domino that tickles the rest of the dominoes?

33:16 – Have we reached the "end of history" with liberal democracy and consumerism as the dominant forces?

36:18 - The Need for a Catalyst of Change

39:31 - The complex relationship between activism and politics

43:54 - The concept of timing and its crucial role in effecting change

47:49 – How can people play an impactful role today? Is joining a climate VC or startup the way to go?

51:37 – Outro

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ABOUT THE HOST:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yberno/

Yoann Berno is committed to the democratization of climate tech investing, to contribute significantly to the fight against global warming. Passionate about empowering individuals striving to make a difference in addressing climate change, he is renowned as the podcast host of Climate Insiders. In this role, he dedicates himself to showcasing the perspectives of trailblazers in environmental sustainability.

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Mentioned in the podcast:

Timothee Parrique - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timoth%C3%A9e-parrique-7b593450/

Timothee's Book: "Ralentir ou Périr" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62654568-ralentir-ou-p-rir

Book: The Future is Degrowth - https://timotheeparrique.com/book-review-the-future-is-degrowth/

Degrowth Book suggestions - https://timotheeparrique.com/books/

Speech at European Commission on Beyond Growth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rojLAkVhWas

Utopia for Realists - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists

Degrowth Journal - https://www.degrowthjournal.org/

Jean Marc Jancovici - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Jancovici

The Shift Project - https://theshiftproject.org/en/team/

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In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appearances since the win, Suu Kyi went to a roadside to be photographed by journalists picking up garbage. Why? What was she doing there? The obvious answer to that question is: launching a nationwide trash clearance campaign. The less obvious but more interesting one is: outsourcing the polity. 

That’s the title of a new book by Gerard McCarthy, Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2023), which is the subject of this episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies. In it McCarthy explains how the NLD government’s failure to break with the political economy of military dictatorship was not due to structural constraints alone, but was ideologically motivated. Drawing on years of ethnographic and survey research in Myanmar, he shows how welfare capitalism can slip between regime types, and insidiously undermine programs for social justice through redistribution of wealth.

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William Mitchell exposes the many ideological maneuvers progressives need to confront in disputing the supremacy of profits over employment and people’s dignity. That goes for disciplining the state to appease foreign exchange markets, the problems with Basic Income proposals, and much more. Lynn Fries interviews William Mitchell on GPEnewsdocs.