https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jnpb5-13d3650 On cracked-up capitalism. Historian of ideas Quinn Slobodian joins us again, this time to discuss his latest book, Crack-up Capitalism – the vision of a global capitalism with its constituent nation-states perforated by ‘zones’ shorn of any national oversight…
Tag: Economy
Excerpt: /326/ What Did Capitalism Do Next?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ipc5g-13adb93 On what comes after neo-liberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] After 40 years of neo-liberalism, governments are inching their way to some new settlement, under the pressure of repeated crises, as well as populist upsurges. In this episode we try…
/323/ Tasty Frictionless Convenience
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ap6yr-13954e7 On the app economy. [Patreon Exclusive] Delivery apps have taken the world by storm, and the pandemic only deepened our dependence on them. What is the price of convenience – and is there anything wrong with wanting…
Excerpt: /311/ Reading Club: The Precariat
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d5zc3-1357261 Is there a new 'transformative' class? [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We close of the 2022 Reading Club, and the final section on 'Neo-Feudalism', by discussing how class is changing. Through readings by Guy Standing and Ruy…
Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…
Excerpt: /301/ Reading Club: Neo-Feudalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgsgy-1305e1f On Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism We start off by discussing your points on the last RC, on conspiracy theory. Then we delve into Kotkin's book, asking whether he has an adequate understanding of feudalism, and whether this…
Excerpt: /296/ Last-Gasp Neoliberalism (Trussonomics)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f8nh9-12edca8 On Trussonomics. [Patreon Exclusive] Having stumbled upon a successful recipe under Boris Johnson which would see greater state intervention, Britain's Tories then pivoted to a much more pro-market approach. But the markets haven't liked it – they've…
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Excerpt: /265/ Three Articles: Inflation!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3xgpf-1232ce8 [Patreon Exclusive] On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation. In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to it than pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and the Ukraine…
/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qi2un-11e4194 On energy, the material basis for all our politics?Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from…
Excerpt: /224/ Three Articles: Labour Revolts?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sb7fy-111ba9d On rising wages after the pandemic. Workers are quitting their jobs and not going back. Restricted supply is seeing wages go up. Does this signal a new militancy, or are workers just deciding to make do with less?…
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