Cosmopod

The World System and The Beautiful Game ⚽ with Sam Parry


Listen Later

Rudy and Djamil join Sam Parry, author of The Ugly Economics of the Beautiful Game for a discussion on how capitalism interacts with the sport most of the world knows as football. We talk about the many ways in which capitalism interacts with international football from a world-systems perspective including how the periphery ends up supplying talent to the economic core, the tendencies towards vertical integration, the stickiness of capital, the historic patterns of club ownership, and the recent irruption of oil-money clubs. We also briefly talk about the ways national teams, race and football interact.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

CosmopodBy Cosmonaut Magazine

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

86 ratings


More shows like Cosmopod

View all
Behind the News with Doug Henwood by Doug Henwood

Behind the News with Doug Henwood

482 Listeners

Jacobin Radio by Jacobin

Jacobin Radio

1,407 Listeners

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff by Democracy at Work - Richard D. Wolff

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

1,939 Listeners

Chapo Trap House by Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

8,771 Listeners

Rev Left Radio by Revolutionary Left Radio

Rev Left Radio

3,225 Listeners

Trillbilly Worker's Party by Trillbilly Worker's Party

Trillbilly Worker's Party

1,866 Listeners

Bungacast by Bungacast

Bungacast

213 Listeners

Citations Needed by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson

Citations Needed

3,865 Listeners

The Antifada by Sean KB and AP Andy

The Antifada

923 Listeners

Blowback by Blowback

Blowback

2,926 Listeners

This Machine Kills by This Machine Kills

This Machine Kills

202 Listeners

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker by The Socialist Program

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

502 Listeners

Guerrilla History by Guerrilla History

Guerrilla History

557 Listeners

What's Left of Philosophy by Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris

What's Left of Philosophy

254 Listeners

American Prestige by Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

American Prestige

685 Listeners