Political Economy Podcast

11. "The Case for a Job Guarantee" - by Pavlina Tcherneva

A universal job guarantee, provided by the state. Funded by monetary financing, as described by Modern Monetary Theory. To be spent on guaranteeing employment for those t

10. "Less is more" - by Jason Hickel

Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World by Jason Hickel (William Heinemann Publishing, 2020) How we shall not reduce CO2 emissions without degrowth of our econom

9. "Great Transformations" - by Mark Blyth

Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century by Mark Blyth  (Cambridge University Press, 2002) How economic ideas were used t

8. "Keynes: The Return of the Master" - by Robert Skidelsky

Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky (Allen Lane, 2009) Keynesianism dominated economics and economic policy roughly between 1936 and 1973. The neoliber

7. "The China Model" - by Daniel A. Bell

The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell. (Princeton University Press, 2016) A Canadian born political scientist working in

6. "Leftism Reinvented" - by Stephanie L. Mudge

Leftism Reinvented – Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism by Stephanie L. Mudge (Harvard University Press, 2018) How left wing political parties have decline

5. "The Triumph of Injustice" - by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

The Triumph of injustice - How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (WW Norton, 2019) 232 pages The enormous social inequal

4. "Capital and Ideology" - by Thomas Piketty

Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty (September 2019, Harvard University Press, 1150pp) Following upon the global success of his previous book, Capital in the 21st Ce

3. "The Value of Everything" - by Marianna Mazzucato

The Value of Everything – Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Marianna Mazzucato (Public Affairs, 2018) 384 pages What is value? Who produces it in the economy? D

2. "Putin's People" - by Catherine Belton

Putin's People - How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On the West by Catherine Belton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; June 2020) 640 pages A 2020 book that looks at th

1. "The Deficit Myth" - by Stephanie Kelton

The Deficit Myth - Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Stephanie Kelton (Public Affairs, June 2020) 336 pages A plain language elaboration of Mo

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