https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jwdtt-1008d7a On cash welfarism and state investment. Plus regionalism in Belgium & the UK. Anton Jäger is back on the pod to discuss the emerging 'transfer state'. We examine Biden's massive trillion-dollar spending plans and ask if this means we're…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7n2ru-10073d6 On Covid state failure + responses to listeners. The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We start off by discussing listener points and criticisms – e.g. is PMC a useful category? Is a…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6gmk6-ffc7d9 On the uprising in Myanmar, plus Covid state failure. Southeast Asia scholar (and Bunga recidivist) Lee Jones joins us to talk about the coup in Myanmar (and why the word “coup” can be misleading), and explains the nature of…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gzxea-ec85e5 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture. Readings: Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ieh68-dd65e7 This is a subscriber-only episode. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this latests Three Articles we discuss power, money and the power of money - in a post-Covid world. Readings: The Death of the Central Bank Myth, Adam Tooze, Foreign…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gqn76-d4eacc In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it. Sign up for access to the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Readings: It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bekbr-ab17f7 On 'Corbynomics'. We talk to James Meadway, former advisor to the UK's Shadow Chancellor, about what a Corbyn government could and should do. What is the scope for manoeuver of a Left Government in 2019? What does a British…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5xzrk-95659b In which we ask why the urban question become so pointed today - in the Global North as well as in the South? We look at contestation in urban politics - in São Paulo, Johannesburg, London, New York, and beyond. What…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5fkw8-8feff4 In which we delve into the gun control debate: are guns really essential for democracy? Plus, the 2018 UK university strike.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dncc6-8d3053 In which we debate the 'equal opportunities revolution': how race & gender has changed, in the workplace & beyond
