Podcast: Economics & Beyond
Dennis Kelleher: A Financial System That Extracts Wealth Instead of Creating It
Dennis Kelleher, President of the NGO Better Markets, outlines how the financial system is serving the wealthy, how it has been reformed in the past and how it can be reformed again to serve Main Street instead of Wall Street.
Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy
Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy
Stephanie Blankenburg
Stephanie Blankenburg: $1 Trillion Debt Relief Needed for Developing World
Doug Carmichael
Doug Carmichael: On the Need for Real Dialogue to Address the Crises of Our Time
Eisuke Sakakibara
Eisuke Sakakibara: Japan, China, India, and the US - Strategies and Tensions
Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of the financial markets group at the London School of Economics, and Manoj Pradhan, founder of the research firm Talking Heads Macro, talk to Rob about their just released book, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
Fred Ledley
Fred Ledley, professor at Bentley University and co-author of an INET-funded research paper on pharma research funding, discusses the research and how US taxpayers might get more social benefit out of the initial investment they put into all new pharmaceuticals released over the past decade
Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt: Private Equity Takeover of Healthcare
James Boyce
James Boyce: How Carbon Pricing and Carbon Dividends Address Both Climate Change and Social Justice
Robert Borosage
Robert Borosage: Trump Voters Believe He May Be A Jerk, But He's Their Jerk
John Kay and Mervyn King
John Kay and Mervyn King: Origins and Future Implications of Radical Uncertainty for Economic Thinking
Robert Dugger
Rob Johnson talks to Robert Dugger, former member of the INET Board and founder of Ready Nation, about how society can safeguard its accomplishments and rights for posterity
Thomas Ferguson
INET鈥檚 Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks to Rob Johnson about the many ways in which money corrupts our politics, contributes to ever-greater inequality, and what can be done about it
Orville Schell
Orville Schell: With China, The West Is Reaping the Bitter Harvest of Imperialism
Thomas Sugrue
Thomas Sugrue, Professor of History at NYU, talks to Rob Johnson about why the multiracial protests against police brutality make 2020 different from 1968.
William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism
William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO鈥檚 chief economist, talks about the inadequacies of the pandemic economic rescue package and how mainstream economic theory continues to fail everyone, but especially Blacks
Elaine Brown, Pt. 2
Elaine Brown Pt. 2: Music and Activism in the Struggle for Racial Justice
Brian Barnier
Brian Barnier, Director of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors, talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic could change the mission of central banks.
Michael Pettis
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
Wendy Brown
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear: On George Floyd and John Ruskin
Sarah Kendzior
Journalist and author Sarah Kendzior talks to Rob Johnson about how the Uzbekistan鈥檚 experience of authoritarianism within a nominally democratic framework could be the future of the U.S.