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

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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

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The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work

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The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities

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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

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The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

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The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

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The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

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

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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

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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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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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Spotlight On Piketty: In this rare appearance in London, French economist Thomas Piketty appeared centre stage for Intelligence Squared, along with a panel of experts, to debate his findings of his book 'Capital in the 21st Century', an analysis of the causes and ...

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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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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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Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt: This week’s guest is Naomi Oreskes, co-author with historian Eric Conway of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Through extensive archival research, Oreskes...

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194 Piketty’s Prescription for Wealth Inequality: Economist Thomas Piketty details the policies he believes will be key to overcoming the wealth inequality illustrated in his seminal 2013 book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” He also discusses the 2018 World Inequality Report, which builds on and

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[Unedited]: Thomas Piketty On Creating A More Equal Society?: French economist Thomas Piketty is one of the leading intellectuals documenting inequality, with his 2013 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” becoming widely read and cited. His new book, "A Brief History of Equality," is more optimistic: In it, Piketty documents how our world has become relatively more equal since the end of the 18th century. In this unedited conversation, Piketty talks to Bethany and Luigi about the lessons from this movement toward equality and where it could go next – especially regarding policy choices such as taxes, reparations, and redistribution toward more racial, democratic, and global equality. Among others, they discuss: Would people favor massive redistribution? What kind of institutions would be required to oversee markets? Can true progress be achieved without equality?

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Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022): An interview with Gary Gerstle

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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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185: Peter Thiel, The Contrarian (w/ Max Chafkin): Max Chafkin, author and features editor at Bloomberg BusinessWeek joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his new book THE CONTRARIAN: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power. We discuss Thiel's early life, his founding PayPal and Palantir, his "libertarian" stage, his role as a major Trump backer, his revenge on Gawker, his funding of Rumble, what drives him and the future of his backing Republican candidates and much more! On the patron half of the show: Bill Gates' bizarre interview on Epstein, Jimmy Dore and his cohorts continue to get Nina Turner's loss wrong, your calls, questions, comments and more! (Episode from the 9/22/21 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

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Karl Marx Was Right: We can’t say Karl Marx didn’t warn us: capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. In their chase for ever higher profits, the capitalists shed workers for machines. The higher return on capital means that the share of profits rises and the...

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Power and Progress with Simon Johnson

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Is Technological Progress Good For Everyone? With Daron Acemoglu: In his new book, "Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity", renowned MIT Professor of Economics Daron Acemoglu (with co-author Simon Johnson) argues that the benefits from technological progress are shaped by the distribution of power in society. In this episode, Acemoglu joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss the key challenges of ensuring that this progress benefits everyone, not just the wealthy and powerful. They discuss the rules, norms, and expectations around technology governance, the unintended consequences of AI development, and how the mismanagement of property rights, especially over data, can reinforce inequality and exploitation.

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Doughnut Economics, with Kate Raworth

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411 | Vincent Bevins: Why Didn't a Decade of Global Mass Protests Lead to Revolutionary Change?: Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Vincent discuss how, from 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any point in human history, the factors that drove protests in countries like Brazil, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and Ukraine, the short-term success and long-term checkered track-record of mass protests, and why he believes the conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided.

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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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Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022): An interview with Richard V. Reeves

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A Theory of Everyone (but not Everything): Michael Muthukrishna on how human-beings are a new kind of animal and why we need to transform the world into the most efficient laboratory possible

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Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022): An interview with Gary Gerstle

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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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Chris Blattman on Why We Fight: It's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks about his book Why We Fight with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Blattman explains why only a fraction of rivalries ever erupt into violence, the five main reasons adversaries can't arrive at compromise, and the problem with trying to get into Putin's head (and why it's not all about Putin. Really).

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Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022): An interview with Oded Galor

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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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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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Episode 61: Interview with Carlota Perez, Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics: Professor Carlota Perez has spent her career researching the profound impact technology has had on socio-economic development.  In this fascinating interview, we explore the two distinct phases of a technological revolution as outlined by Carlota: install

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