Unlearning Economics
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Episodes of Unlearning Economics
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Palak Patel is an investor who spent a decade specialising in South Asia and Latin America. His book The Tyranny of Nations: How the Last 500 Years Shaped Today's Global Economy draws an analogy between the Dutch and British Empires, as well a
Dr Cameron Murray is the author of The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia. Cam is an urban economist who specialises in housing and he has, for a long time, been pushing against th
Conner Howell is a graduate student in economics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He does research on securitization and shadow banking through a Post-Keynesian lens. I learned a lot about this important and mysterious sector, and h
Dr Ingrid Kvangraven is a senior lecturer in International Development at King's College London. Ingrid specialises in dependency theory, a branch of scholarship that emphases that poorer countries are kept dependent on richer countries. This c
Josh Mason is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, as well as a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. I already spoke to Josh about more abstract and general topics in economics, including Marxism a
Dr Rosie Collington is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Organization at the University of Copenhagen. She is the co-author, along with Marianna Mazzucatto, of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantiliz
Jo Michell is a Professor of Economics at the University of West England, Bristol, and a friend of mine. We previously chatted about Keynesianism on the podcast, see here if you want a refresher:https://open.spotify.com/episode/70HlACXJTARA6bf7
Dr Deema Awad and Dr Miriam Tresh are both Associate Professors at the Psychological and Behavioural Science Department at LSE, where I used to work and with which I am still affiliated. For a few years, Deema and Miriam have been working on a
Michael Muthukrishna is an Associate Professor of Economics Psychology at the London School of Economics and therefore a colleague of mine. His book A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going does what it says on t
Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman is known for her book Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. This is an excellent book which looks at the influence of the economics profession, a topic which is close
Duncan Weldon is a British economist who currently works at The Economist newspaper. He has previously worked at the BBC and the Resolution Group. He wrote a book on UK economic history called 'Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through'. We discuss
James Plunkett is the author of a book called End State: 9 Ways Society Is Broken & How We Fix It. I read the book not too long ago and really loved it, so I invited James to join me for a chat. James and I ended up having an optimistic take on
Dr Ganga Shreedhar is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in the LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. She is interested in ecology and the environment, including how it relates to human psychology and behaviour. We
Dr Max Holleran is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is focused on urban development including gentrification, tourism, and recently the YIMBY/NIMBY debate. Max wrote the book Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight fo
Dr Dean Baker is an economist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He wrote the book Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. The book argues that trade
Joseph Politano is an economist who runs a substack called Apricitas Economics. He blogs about the US and world economies. Late last year he was heavily involved in the debate about whether there was a 'vibecession'. This referred to the massiv
Matt Bruenig is an economist, lawyer, and policy analyst. He runs the think-tank the People's Policy Project, which focuses on practical welfare and socialist policies in the USA. We had a really interesting chat about practical socialism and h
Daniela Gabor is a Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at UWE Bristol, England. She specialises in shadow banking and capital markets, and has become known for her idea of the Wall Street Consensus which guides policy in the rich and poor
Yuan Yang is the Financial Times' Europe-China correspondent and, like me, a founding member of Rethinking Economics (RE). We chatted about RE, the economics profession, economics education, and education in general. We also talked about writin
Dr Beatrice Cherrier is an associate professor at CREST, CNRS, ENSAE/Ecole Polytechnique in France. She specialises in the history of economic thought since World War 2. Beatrice and I have had many interesting exchanges in the past so I was ex
Adam Mastroianni is a psychologist who wrote a viral blog post about the failure of peer review, which you can read below. We discussed how to do good science, including some of his interesting research in psychology. The conversation was reall
I spoke with Nouhalia Oudija and Abigail Acheson, two students from the USA who have helped push forward Rethinking Economics there. We had a lovely chat about all things economics education, as well as how they see the movement pushing economi
Alex S. Vitale is a Professor at Brooklyn college. He is the author of the book The End of Policing, which has become a bible for the Defund the Police Movement. I had the pleasure of reading the book recently and was surprised by how persuasiv
Blair Fix is an economist who works on issues of income distribution and hierarchy. He is a staunch critic of mainstream economics and has also critiqued Marxism in the past. I've used Blair's work in my videos and we had a great chat about all
Josh Mason is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, as well as a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.He is one of my favourite heterodox economists and we had a fantastic chat about capital and weal
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