Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

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The Hidden Wealth Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

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Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

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Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021

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Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy (Politics and Culture)

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

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Going Big: FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

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The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself

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GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change

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At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health 1st Edition

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

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Wages of Rebellion

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The Global Police State

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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

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A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

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Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics

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Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies

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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

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The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

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Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World

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Freakonomics Rev Ed

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Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail

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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

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Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology

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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

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How the World Works

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Nudge: The Final Edition: Improving Decisions About Money, Health, And The Environment

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

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Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

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University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting

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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

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What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

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A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

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Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’: The French economist Thomas Piketty is arguably the world’s greatest chronicler of economic inequality. For decades now, he has collected huge data sets documenting the share of income and wealth that has flowed to the top 1 percent. And the culmination of much of that work, his 2013 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” quickly became one of the most widely read and cited economic texts in recent history. Piketty’s new book, “A Brief History of Equality,” is perhaps his most optimistic work. In it, he chronicles the immense social progress that the U.S. and Europe have achieved over the past few centuries in the form of rising educational attainment, life expectancy and incomes. Of course, those societies still contain huge inequalities of wealth. But in Piketty’s view, this outcome isn’t an inevitability; it’s the product of policy choices that we collectively make — and could choose to make differently. And to that end, Pik

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J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020): An interview with J. Bradford DeLong

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William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts: William Easterly talks to host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book, The Tyranny of Experts. Easterly argues that poverty endures in many poor countries because of a lack of economic and political freedom for its poorest members. He argues that the aid process and the role experts play in that process reinforces the oppression of the poor. Other topics discussed include data-oriented solutions, autocracy vs. democracy, and Easterly's perspective on development from Bill Gates and recent EconTalk guest Jeffery Sachs.

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Good Economics for Hard Times [Audio]

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Stephanie Kelton on Modern Monetary Theory: Episode #402. Stephanie Kelton explains modern monetary theory, a new approach to economics. She explains how to break free of the myths and misunderstandings about money and the role of taxes, debt, and deficits that have hamstrung policymakers...

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A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton: Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential.

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Rebecca Henderson on Reimagining Capitalism: Rebecca Henderson talks about her book Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire with host Russ Roberts. She argues that the focus on shareholder value threatens to destroy capitalism from within. She also argues that business leaders need to manage their companies differently in order to create a more humane and stable capitalism.

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Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020): Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.

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The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth: An interview with Mark Blyth

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Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020): An interview with Yuen Yuen Ang

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Modern Monetary Theory and its challenge to Neoliberalism: After more than four decades of dominance, free-market capitalism is facing a challenge. Its rival, the rather blandly named Modern Monetary Theory, promises to return economic planning to a less ideological footing. It’s also keen to strike a blow against the “surplus fetish” that many economists now blame for declining public services and growing inequality.

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Elinor Ostrom, Polycentric Governance, and Policing with Vlad Tarko: Today's guest is Vlad Tarko of Dickinson College. We discuss the life and work of Elinor Ostrom, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. Vlad is the author of Elinor Ostrom: An intellectual biography. We discuss Elinor Ostrom's work on...

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Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015): So many of our social questions are now the subject of analysis from economics. In A Richer Life: How Economics can Change the Way We Think and Feel (Penguin, 2015), Phillip Roscoe, a reader at the University of St Andrew’s School of Management,

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Dirk Ehnts, "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (Routledge, 2016): An interview with Dirk Ehnts

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The Interview - Stephanie Kelton -- MMT and the Deficit Myth: MMT is here at our doorstep, and it seems there is little standing in the way of MMT becoming the premise for US government spending initiatives.

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Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015): An interview with Alvin E. Roth

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Albena Azmanova, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Utopia or Crisis" (Columbia UP, 2020): Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

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Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail: Daron Acemoglu talks with host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book, Why Nations Fail: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow and sustain growth while others grow and then stagnate. He argues that differences in institutions--political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system--explain the differences in economics success across nations and over time. Acemoglu also discusses how institutions evolve and the critical role institutional change plays in economic success or failure. Along the way, he explains why previous explanations for national economic success are inadequate. The conversation closes with a discussion of the implications of the arguments for foreign aid and attempts by the wealthy nations to help nations that are poor.

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How politics became a war against reality: Peter Pomerantsev on modern propaganda, post-truth politics, and the authoritarian resurgence

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The other 99% of history

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Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

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Richard Davies on Extreme Economies: Richard Davies talks with host Russ Roberts about his book, Extreme Economies, exploring economic life in extreme situations. The Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, the Panama rain forest, and Kinshasa, the largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo are discussed. This is an economic and journalistic tour de force as Davies shares insights from his encounters with people around the world struggling to trade and prosper in extreme environments.

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JOSEPH STIGLITZ ON INEQUALITY, WAR PROFITEERS, AND A NEW COLD WAR

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Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century: Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to host Russ Roberts about the book. The conversation covers some of the key empirical findings of the book along with a discussion of their significance.

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30. Dambisa Moyo Says Foreign Aid Can’t Solve Problems, but Maybe Corporations Can: The African-born economist has written four bestselling books, including Dead Aid, which Bill Gates described as “promoting evil.” In her new book about corporate boards, Dambisa uses her experience with global corporations to explore how they can better meet society’s demands. And she explains to Steve why, even as a Harvard and Oxford-educated economist, her goal in life might sound “a little bit like a Miss America pageant.”   

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The Meritocracy Trap: Daniel Markovits: “Meritocracy is just an ideological construction designed to make inequality okay, when inequality is not okay.”

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Getting into the Doughnut, with Kate Raworth and Matthew Taylor: In this week's episode Kate Raworth, Oxford University economist discusses what she calls Doughnut Economics, an idea she came up with to help humanity deal with the challenges we face today: financial crises, extreme wealth ineq...

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Good Economics for Hard Times [Audio]

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David Donaldson: Sherlock of Trade: MIT’s Dave Donaldson makes no assumptions about trade that are not based on facts.

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How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam Tooze)