Alan Murray: The Search for the Soul of Business
Corporate responsibility needs to evolve if businesses are going to rebuild trust and provide real value for society.
Jul 14, 2022•29 min•Ep. 208
Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson is not your average economist, and this is not your average economics podcast. Every week, Rob talks about economic and social issues with a guest who probably wasn’t on your Econ 101 reading list, from musicians to activists to rebel economists. A podcast of The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
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Thomas Piketty: Quality of Life for Billions of People is at Stake
World-renowned economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty in conversation with Rob Johnson, about Piketty’s just-released book, A Brief History of Equality.
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 207
Gary Gerstle: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Cambridge University's American History professor Gary Gerstle discusses his most recent book, about how the neoliberal order came about, why it is faltering, and the indeterminacy of what comes next.
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 206
Jeffrey Sachs: Peace is the Result of Diplomacy, Never of War
Columbia University's renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the lessons he has learned from consulting with governments around the world, about how global problems, such as the war in Ukraine, will only be solved via efforts to understand the other side, never through force.
Jun 02, 2022•56 min•Ep. 205
Chen Long: Creating a Digital Circular Economy for Net Zero
Luohan Academy's Director Chen Long discusses the academy's latest report, on the benefits of creating a "digital circular economy," which would go a long way towards reaching net zero carbon emissions and addressing the climate crisis. Report link: https://www.luohanacademy.com/insights/bc89734b94adf00c
May 19, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 204
Peter Temin: Black and White America Always on Separate Trajectories
MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses his new INET-CUP book, Never Together: The Economic History of a Segregated America, in which he shows how efforts to bridge the gap between races were always undermined, resulting in constant economic hardship for Black people.
May 05, 2022•48 min•Ep. 203
Norman Solomon: The Ukraine War and the Madness of Militarism
Author and peace activist Norman Solomon talks about the double standards in US foreign policy that have smoothed the path for Russia's inexcusable invasion of Ukraine. The role of the military-industrial-complex in the US is one of the main reasons we lack a single standard for the use of military force and human rights, says Solomon.
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 202
Joanna Chiu—China vs. West: New World Disorder
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.
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 201
Kishore Mahbubani: The Return of Asia in the 21st Century
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, 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.
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 200
Richard Kozul-Wright & Kevin Gallagher: Re-orienting Global Finance Towards Ecological and Social Goals
UNCTAD Director Richard Kozul-Wright and Kevin Gallagher, Global Development Policy professor at Boston University, discuss their book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods. Ever since the post-war economic order was dismantled beginning in the 1980s, a re-design of the global economic order has become increasingly urgent in light of the social and ecological crises that we face.
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 199
Peter Barnes: The Problem of Ownership in Capitalism
Peter Barnes, the entrepreneur and author of the recently published book, Ours: The Case for Universal Property, talks about how new conceptions of property - a universal commons - could fundamentally transform capitalism to make it more ecologically and socially sustainable.
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 198
Michael Spence: We Are Entering a New Economic World
Economics Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discusses the profound changes that are rippling through the global economy as we emerge from the COVID recession, where economic growth will have to rely more on productivity gains instead of the incorporation of excess labor capacity and what this would mean for countries around the world. Luohan Academy event referenced in the episode: Opportunities and Challenges for an Aging Society | Frontier Dialogue #9...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 197
Sarita Mohanty: Investing in Compassion
The tradition of abandoning our elderly populations needs to end. Sarita Mohanty talks with Rob Johnson about her work at the SCAN Foundation, and the critical importance of combating "ageism" to strengthening our society. Learn more: https://www.thescanfoundation.org/...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 196
Anand Giridharadas: How We Are Going to Live Together Is Up for Grabs
Anand Giridharadas, writer and author of the book, Winners Take All, discusses the multiple crises we are currently facing, how they could provide an impetus for real change, and how US and global elites are failing to live up to the challenge.
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 195
Patrick Lawrence: The US Doesn’t Pursue Foreign Policy, Only Security Policy
Patrick Lawrence, writer and executive editor of The Scrum, analyzes the roots of US foreign policy failures, how these are reflected in the current confrontation with Russia, which can be found the US establishment's weddedness to power and to an unwillingness to see the other's perspective.
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 194
Max Lawson: The Pandemic’s Billionaire Variant
Max Lawson, head of Oxfam International's Inequality Policy program, discusses Oxfam's latest inequality report, "Inequality Kills," which highlights the extreme growth in wealth of the billionaire class during the pandemic and how this has had a direct effect on the health and survival of the world's bottom 50%.
Mar 03, 2022•58 min•Ep. 193
Ajay Chhibber: Unshackling India for Economic Revival
Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and India's first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of Minister of State in 2013-14, discusses his co-authored book, Unshackling India, about what needs to happen for India's economy to take off.
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 192
Wendell Potter: US Healthcare Strangled by Massive Insurance Profits and Money in Politics
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
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 191
Adam Tooze: A Global Green New Deal
Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.
Feb 10, 2022•23 min•Ep. 190
Terrence McNally: On Finding Repair and Relief from the Commodification of Social Design
Terrence McNally, the host of the podcast Free Forum: A World that just Might Work, interviews Rob about the current state of the world and what needs to happen for us to get out of the mess in which we find ourselves.
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 189
John Fullerton: Regenerative Economics: A Necessary Paradigm Shift for a World in Crisis
John Fullerton, the Founder of the Capital Institute, discusses the urgent need for a new paradigm in economic thinking, modeled on living systems instead of Newtonian physics, which he calls regenerative economics.
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 188
Peter Goodman: How Davos Man Devours the World
Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but has been engineered through the political process by selling us a false idea of what is possible.
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 187
COP26: The Paralysis from Above
In a replay of INET Live's webinar, following the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last December, Richard Kozul-Wright of UNCTAD, Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg, and author Maude Barlow discuss the disproportionate impact climate change has on the developing world and the ways to best address it.
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 186
Glenn Hubbard: The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today's competitive world.
Jan 06, 2022•51 min•Ep. 185
The Pandemic‘s Opportunities and Challenges for Racial Justice
Prosperity Now CEO Gary Cunningham talks to Rob, in a wide-ranging discussion, about the many ways in which the pandemic has affected racial justice and injustice and how we might overcome the divisions and polarizations that we currently confront.
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 184
Thomas Ferguson: Making Sense of the 2020 Presidential Election
INET's Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks about the research he and his collaborators Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen conducted of the 2020 election and some of overlooked factors that were at play in that election.
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 183
Yuen Yuen Ang: China & U.S. - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China's Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of two gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 182
Tom Nichols: Our Own Worst Enemy
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 181
Dan Breznitz: Innovation in the Service of Society
Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.
Nov 18, 2021•53 min•Ep. 180
Bill Janeway: What Is the Janeway Institute?
"I was considering what I was going to do, [and] what I decided I could not do, was stay within the confines of mainstream academic economics." Rob Johnson talks with INET Co-Founder Bill Janeway about his exciting new project at Cambridge University.
Nov 10, 2021•56 min•Ep. 179
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