Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality
June 22, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Democracy Now interview Joseph Stiglitz on his new book The Price of Inequality, which follows a similar theme to his Rolling Stone article Of the 1%, By the 1%, For the 1%.
Ha-Joon Chang Interview
June 4, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Electric Politics interview Cambridge economics scholar Ha-Joon Chang.
Paul Krugman vs. Austerity and its Supporters
June 1, 2012 § 1 Comment
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes down a fat cat Tory donor Jon Moulton and a Tory MP Andrea Leadsom on BBC Newsnight, comprehensively demolishing their arguments for austerity and cuts.
Ha-Joon Chang and John Lanchester interview
May 11, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Ha-Joon Chang talks economics with John Lanchester.
Alex Salmond on Scottish Independence
February 18, 2012 § 1 Comment
David Frost speaks to Alex Salmond on Scottish Independence and Paul Krugman on the private debt crisis.
Many Scots now want to leave the UK, but will it be enough to win a referendum on independence in 2014? Sir David Frost speaks to the man who has led the movement for independence, Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond.
The Age of Unequals
December 29, 2011 § Leave a Comment
One of Britain’s leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
December 4, 2011 § Leave a Comment
In August, at Marxism 2011, Richard Wilkinson gave the following talk on his book, co-authored with Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
The League of Gentlemen
October 30, 2011 § Leave a Comment
A 1992 documentary by the brilliant Adam Curtis about the rise of Monetarism during Britain’s economis crisis in the 1970s. As countries accross Europe bow to the seemingly inexorable logic of austerity and the European Union attempts to lock in a neoliberal model of economic governance, it has lost none of its relevance.
In his most recent blog post, Curtis unearths yet more wonderful archival gems and documentery evidence of what Stuart Hall calls the ‘long march of the neoliberal revolution’.
The Koch Brothers
October 27, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Al Jazeera’s People and Power investigates the tycoon duo’s ununderground campaign to swing the balance of US power for Republicans.
Africa’s Odious Debts
October 26, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of ‘Africa’s Odious Debts’, argue that under international law, debts incurred by dictators should not be enforceable.
