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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is austerity back?
Pub date: 2021-10-26

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At the height of the pandemic, politicians promised to do whatever it took to keep the economy going, and introduced emergency support like the furlough scheme. But now those measures have been cut and the conversation has turned to “fixing the public finances”, ending “reckless borrowing'' and preventing “soaring debt”. The word austerity hasn’t featured yet but it’s all feeling a bit familiar, isn’t it?

So, what do these phrases actually mean? Should we really be worried about things like government borrowing and public debt? And what are some of the alternative ways of thinking about our economy?

Ayeisha is joined by Dora Meade, head of messaging at the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), and Frank van Lerven, senior economist at NEF.

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Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Disaggregating China Inc., with Yeling Tan
Pub date: 2021-10-15

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Speaker: Yeiling Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon

Professor Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet current economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble. To what extent has the liberal internationalist promise of the WTO been fulfilled? To answer this question, this study breaks open the black box of the massive Chinese state and unpacks the economic strategies that central economic agencies as well as subnational authorities adopted in response to WTO rules demanding far-reaching modifications to China’s domestic institutions. The study explains why, rather than imposing constraints, WTO entry provoked divergent policy responses from different actors within the Chinese state, in ways neither expected nor desired by the architects of the WTO.

Yeiling Tan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, and a non-resident scholar at the opens in a new windowUC San Diego 21st Century China Center. From 2017-2020, she was a fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of International Trade and Investment. From 2017-2019, she was a member of the opens in a new windowGeorgetown University Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. In 2017-18, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the opens in a new windowPrinceton-Harvard China and the World Program in Princeton University.

​Her research interests lie at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, with an emphasis on China and the developing world. Two broad questions define her research agenda. First: how do the rules of globalization affect politics within authoritarian regimes such as China, given that these rules require increasingly far-reaching modifications to domestic institutions? Second, how do authoritarian regimes affect rule-making at the international level?

She holds a PhD in Public Policy from opens in a new windowHarvard University (2017), an MPA in International Development from the opens in a new windowJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2011) and a BA (Honors, Distinction) in International Relations and Economics from opens in a new windowStanford University (2002). Apart from research on globalization and China, she has also worked in the public and non-governmental sectors on a range of issues including economic development, international security policy, global governance and governance innovations.

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Podcast: Transforming Society podcast
Episode: What next for the welfare state?
Pub date: 2021-10-14

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In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?', about current policy, the mistakes of the past, and ways in which the welfare state should be transformed in order to ensure collective wellbeing.

Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-next-welfare-state

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Podcast: Haymarket Books Live (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age w/ Frances Fox Piven & more
Pub date: 2021-10-15

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Join Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal for a conversation on revolution in the contemporary era.

The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age explores a series of these upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt.

In this book launch scholars of and participants in some of these revolutionary upheavals will consider what lessons we can draw from these moments and movements that brought the system to its knees, before it rallied and turned back the tides of sweeping change.

Order a copy of the book from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1653-revolutionary-rehearsals-in-the-neoliberal-age

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Speakers:

Cinzia Arruzza is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the Vice-President of the New School AAUP chapter and the co-author of Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto. She is a member of the editorial board of Spectre Journal.

Gareth Dale teaches politics at Brunel University. He is the author of The East German Revolution of 1989.

Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a co-author, with Richard A. Cloward, of The Breaking of the American Social Compact; a co-author, with Lorraine C. Minnite and Margaret Groarke, of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters; and the author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism and Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate. She lives in New York City.

Sameh Naguib teaches sociology at the American University in Cairo and has written extensively on politics in Egypt and the Middle East. He is also a founding member of the Revolutionary Socialist Movement in Egypt.

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Podcast: Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ann Pettifor: How Do We Create the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal?
Pub date: 2021-10-14

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Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a roadmap for both national and global financial reform to make it possible.

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Podcast: A World to Win with Grace Blakeley (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: WORK WITHOUT THE WORKER: An interview with Phil Jones
Pub date: 2021-10-14

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This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. They discuss whether what we refer to as automation actually relies on the proliferation of poorly paid microwork around the world, who does this work under what conditions, and how workers can start to organise to resist their exploitation at the hands of some of the most powerful companies in the world.

You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Digging into the Pandora Papers
Pub date: 2021-10-08

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What are the Pandora Papers, why do they matter, and what do they reveal?

For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur digs into this explosive investigation of nearly 12 million documents that show what the world’s richest are really doing with their money.

For the first half, she speaks with reporter Spencer Woodman from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the organization that released the papers, about his latest story on the Legion of Christ stashing millions overseas.

Then, she brings on Phoenix-based tax attorney Bob Lord with the Institute for Policy Studies to learn what the Pandora Papers reveal about tax avoidance.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven on the Work of Samir Amin
Pub date: 2021-10-06

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at King’s College, London. Her research is centered on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, the political economy of development, and critically assessing the economics field.

She is also Founder and Editor of the blog Developing Economics, Founder and Steering Group member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) and Coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The state and the autonomous zone / Stellan Vinthagen
Pub date: 2021-10-05

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Sociologist Stellan Vinthagen on his article "The ZAD: between utopian radicalism and negotiated pragmatism," co-written with Fareen Parvez for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-radicalism-pragmatism/

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Podcast: Kathakar (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 10: Banking and Trade in the Mediterranean
Pub date: 2021-09-22

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After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was cast into disarray, as several people groups banded together in fiefdoms to ensure survival. However, after decades in the Dark Ages, a light emerged on the European continent and the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods saw a great increase in trade, commerce, and connectedness between the states and kingdoms. Specifically, the Mediterranean saw the development of extensive trade networks with high traffic and risk, creating the need for modern banking institutions. Dr. Francesca Trivellato, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, joins us to discuss Mediterranean trade and banking during the 11th to 17th centuries and the various causes behind the innovations.

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