Podcast: Economics & Beyond

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Fullerton鈥檚 Journey from Wall Street to Regenerative Economics

Nov 25, 2025

In this episode of Economics and Beyond, Rob Johnson and John Fullerton discuss his new book, which explores flaws in traditional economic thinking, and the need for a new framework that views the economy as a living system.

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Solidarity: A World-Changing Idea

May 16, 2024

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor talk to Rob about their recently released book, . The wide-ranging conversation covers the importance of solidarity in addressing the current crises of economic inequality, climate change, and democracy, emphasizing the need for collective action and social movements to bring about change, as well as the role of education and the arts in fostering a sense of community and shared identity.

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One Earth, One Family, One Future

Nov 2, 2023

Rohinton Medhora (INET’s Board Chair, member of our Commission on Global Economic Transformation, and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI) discusses global social healing, India and the G20 with INET President Rob Johnson.

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Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

Apr 27, 2023

Brendan Ballou, talks to Rob about his forthcoming book, Plunder, about the growing harmful role of private equity in the US. Ballou is a federal prosecutor and served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

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The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism

Mar 16, 2023

Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.

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The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance

Feb 23, 2023

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Survival of the Richest

Feb 16, 2023

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Iconik: Beyond ESG

Feb 2, 2023

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The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World

Oct 20, 2022

Financial Times columnist and author Rana Foroohar talks about her new book

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The World After Capital

Aug 9, 2022

We are in the midst of another global transformation, but this time we might have the tools to get it right.

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China vs. West: New World Disorder

Apr 21, 2022

The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus autocratic China if we hope to engage China in a way that seriously addresses issues such as human rights, climate change, and economic development.

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The Return of Asia in the 21st Century

Apr 14, 2022

Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research 51黑料网, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the rise of plutocracy and Asia’s renewed rise - after having fallen behind in the last 200 years - to its growing sense of dynamism, optimism, and diversity. This is the 200th episode of the podcast Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson.

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US Healthcare Strangled by Massive Insurance Profits and Money in Politics

Feb 17, 2022

Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower and investigative journalist Wendell Potter discusses the many ways in which the private health insurance system of the US is not serving anyone well except the insurance companies’ owners