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Podcast: Reviving Growth Keynesianism (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Eric Helleiner on *The Neo-Mercantilists: A Global Intellectual History*
Pub date: 2022-03-05

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Eric Helleiner joins us to discuss his fascinating new global history of neo-mercantilist ideas. In addition to the well-known "Listian Intellectual World" there is a whole universe of thinkers who were not derivative of List but did dream of industrialization by way of a protectionist and interventionist state. American Henry Carey, for example, was distinct on a number of dimensions - and more influential around the world. But there were also traditions endogenous to East Asia, which developed and expanded on earlier mercantilist discourses that can be traced back to China's Warring States period or Japan's feudal era. Rather than diffusing through the translation and circulation of a single text - as in the case of Smith or Marx - neo-mercantilist ideas seemed to spontaneously appear anytime the conditions were ripe for it. State forms other than the nation - from diaspora to empire to international institutions to a cosmopolitan world state - were dreamt of in the period before 1939 as possible vehicles for neo-mercantilist policy. Versions left, right, and center show how politically underdetermined it was as a discourse.

Note: this episode was recorded prior to the invasion of Ukraine.

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Eric Helleiner's faculty page: https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/people-profiles/eric-helleiner

*The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History* https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760129/the-neomercantilists

*Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order* https://www.google.com/books/edition/Forgotten_Foundations_of_Bretton_Woods/VTMPjwEACAAJ

A refresher on the original mercantilism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

Steve Pincus, Forum: Rethinking Mercantilism https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.69.1.0003

Fredric List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_List

Henry Carey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Carey

Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" excerpts https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s31.html

Commodore Perry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_C._Perry

Sun Yat-sen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen

EF Schumacher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

Gustav von Schmoller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_von_Schmoller

Mihail Manoilescu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Manoilescu

Marcus Garvey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey

Raul Prebisch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Prebisch

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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: It’s Time to Hold the Pandemic Profiteers Accountable
Pub date: 2022-03-07

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The global death toll from COVID-19 has reached six million—and nearly one million of those deaths are from the United States alone. Let’s do the math: that means the U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world population but nearly 17 percent of its COVID deaths. Why is that?

“We should recognize that disasters can be better or worse depending on how those in government and those with economic power respond,” says journalist John Nichols. “They too frequently failed the American people [during the pandemic], and that’s why we have a higher death rate than other countries.”

Meanwhile, as vulnerable Americans have suffered devastating health and economic consequences from two years of COVID, the billionaire class has expanded.

It’s time to hold these pandemic profiteers accountable, says John Nichols. That’s the theme of his latest book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. Today, he joins guest host Bert Zipperer to discuss.

John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times, and the associate editor of the Cap Times. He’s the author of over a dozen books, including Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis (Verso, 2022).

 

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Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work
Pub date: 2022-03-07

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This month's episode takes a deep dive into the history of work and automation in the post-World War II era. It traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. Countering automation's proponents, who prophesize that robots will soon replace human labor, Jason Resnikoff reveals how the automation discourse has tended to obscure the human beings who continue to labor, often in sped up and intensified manners, alongside machines.

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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Behind the News: Lords of Easy Money
Pub date: 2022-03-01

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Doug interviews Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Fed. Then Lea Ypi, a political philsopher and author of Free, discusses growing up in the last days of Communist Albania and the early days of its neoliberal successor.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #73 - The Profit Paradox - w/ Jan Eeckhout
Pub date: 2022-03-02

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In this episode, Prof. Jan Eeckhout of the University of Barcelona Pompeu Fabra, speaks about his most recent book: "The Profit Paradox - How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work." 

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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Chandni Desai, Disrupting Settler Colonial Economies Across Geographies
Pub date: 2022-02-23

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Chandni Desai, Disrupting Settler Colonial Economies Across Geographies by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

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Podcast: Activist #MMT - podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep110[2/2,2/4]: Jackson Winter: Polanyi's Great Transformation (layperson discussion)
Pub date: 2022-02-27

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Welcome to episode 110 of Activist #MMT. Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Jackson Winter, on the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. This is also part two of a larger four-part series on the book. Jackson is co-writer and editor for PEGS Institute, which is a project to demystify and explain some commonly misunderstood realities of the modern world. Here's their YouTube channel.

(A link to all four parts in the series can be found near the top of this post: A summary of Polanyi's Great Transformation (with many sources to learn more). A list of the audio chapters in this episode can be found at the bottom of this post.)

Parts one and two with Jackson is two smart layperson MMTers trying to come to terms with the depth of what we just read, and connecting it to our lives and MMT. Parts three and four are with Asad Zaman, a PhD economist with many lectures, papers, and posts on the topic (links to which you can find in the show notes to part one with Professor Zaman, next week).

I'll summarize the book in next week's introduction. Even experienced MMTers can't know this stuff. You think you understand the foundation of our economy and society, but you don't. As described in The Great Transformation, there's another foundation underneath it.

(Before we start the interview, I'm making an announcement at the request of a patron, and that is: the podcast Pod Save America, which is hosted by former Obama staffers, has millions of followers, many of who like to think of themselves as progressives. Unfortunately, although the hosts say many smart things, they still live solidly in a pay-for, scarcity, zero-sum world. Please consider contacting the hosts via Twitter and urging them to interview an MMT guest such as Stephanie Kelton, Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, and Randy Wray. The Twitter handles for the podcast and its hosts can be found in the show notes, and in the social media shares for this episode. Thanks for your help in spreading the word!

Here at the Twitter handles for Pod Save America [@PodSaveAmerica] and its hosts: Dan Pfiffer: [@danpfeiffer], Jon Favreau: [@jonfavs], Tommy Vietor: [@tvietor08], Jon Lovett: [@jonlovett])

And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Jackson Winter. Enjoy.

Audio chapters

• 4:31 - Choosing to commodify other humans is a gamble that you won't become one of them
• 7:37 - The gold standard was the glue that held the (belligerent and greedy) world together
• 13:53 - Individual balance of power
• 17:41 - Fascism is a consequence of the neglect and deprivation of neoliberalism
• 20:41 - Thinking of a better economic and political system (and if we should)
• 27:17 - Unregulated versus regulated teenager
• 29:58 - Childhood memories and how we change
• 31:59 - Protecting privilege, at all levels
• 38:35 - We're all doing tiny little evils (because it's necessary in order to survive), that add up to a lot of evil.
• 43:22 - Haute finance and arms dealers (I win capitalism)
• 46:15 - My upcoming online course with Asad Zaman
• 48:11 - Closing thoughts
• 50:41 - Polanyi was a proto-MMTer
• 52:48 - Goodbyes
• 57:06 - Duplicate of introduction, but with no background music

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Podcast: Versus History Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 135: The English Civil War from a Marxist perspective
Pub date: 2022-02-28

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In this energetic and enlightening episode, we were delighted to interview Michael Sturza, who is a life-long socialist political activist and Marxist historian of the English Civil War. He is the author of the brand new book ‘The London Revolution 1640-1643’, published 30 March 2022. A native New Yorker (he still lives there!) who grew up in Brooklyn, he learned about radical politics from his father and in 1966, at the age of 14, he attended his first mass anti-Vietnam War rally with other students from his high school. In college, while actively involved in working-class struggles, he studied Marxism, and, in 1974, graduated cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The description of ‘The London Revolution 1640-1643’ can be found here. It has received positive reviews from, amongst others, Penelope J. Corfield, emeritus Prof. London University; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK); and President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, who states:  Feisty, fearless and fascinating: this book spotlights London’s revolutionary upheavals at the start of Britain’s seventeenth-century Civil War; it shows how London’s revolutionary role has been too often downplayed; and it explains its long-term significance for later generations. Michael Sturza will provoke many debates – and a good thing too! To learn more, please follow on Twitter here. The website is here. The book is here. 

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Podcast: The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Past, Present, and Contested Future of Central Banks
Pub date: 2022-02-25

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The Rhodes Center Podcast explores the most important issues in finance and economics through straightforward, candid conversations with the world’s leading experts. The show is hosted by Mark Blyth, political economist and Director of the Rhodes Center, at the Watson Institute at Brown University. 

On this episode Mark talks with Manuela Moschella about the recent transformations to central bank policy and orthodoxy. Central banking used to be straightforward - fix short term rates and get price stability. 2008 changed that. Engineering asset price instability and massive bailouts became the norm and, despite all that, deflation, not inflation became the problem. The Fed and the ECB were late in waking up to that fact, and just when they did, COVID hit and inflation came back. So Mark asks Manuela: what is a central banker to do? 

Manuela is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Associate Fellow at the Europe Programme at Chatham House. 

Watch Manuela’s talk at the Rhodes Center. 

Learn more about the Watson Institute’s other podcasts. 

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Podcast: Postcapitalism Podcast
Episode: Kepa Artaraz on buen vivir, food forests, and universal basic income
Pub date: 2022-02-14

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In this episode, we’ll be talking about buen vivir, or the idea of living well, as well as rethinking development, and indigenous cultural traditions that can lead us to new ways of moving beyond capitalism. Our guest is Kepa Artaraz, a former lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Brighton in the UK. We'll discuss universal basic income and Kepa's escape from academic life and plans to grow a food forest in the Basque country in Spain.

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