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Macrodose

Podcast Macrodose
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Macrodose

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Your weekly fix of everything economics. A new podcast hosted by James Meadway. More
Your weekly fix of everything economics. A new podcast hosted by James Meadway. More

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  • UNLOCKED The End of Capitalism? The economics of crisis w/ Yanis Varoufakis
    To celebrate our 6 month anniversary, we're unlocking some of our favourite Macrodose Extra episodes from our Patreon. For many more like this, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today! MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. In this episode, James Meadway talks to Yanis Varoufakis about the crisis facing the U.K economy, austerity 2.0 and the era of Cloud Capitalism. Varoufakis is an academic, economist and politician. He formerly served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 in the Syriza government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and is currently a sitting member of the Greek Parliament for MeRA25, a progressive political party which he founded it in 2018.Yanis is also a founder of the Progressive International - seeking to ally and organise progressive movements worldwide, and DiEM25 - a transnational movement to reform the European Union.
    04/06/2023
    46:40
  • UNLOCKED Robots and Foucault: the economics of work w/ Sarah Jaffe
    To celebrate our 6 month anniversary, we're unlocking some of our favourite Macrodose Extra episodes from our Patreon. For many more like this, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today! MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. In today's episode, James Meadway speaks to labour journalist Sarah Jaffe about the wave of strikes we’ve seen this year - from nurses, rail workers and posties here in the U.K, to teachers, Amazon workers, and Starbucks employees over in the United States. What’s new about the latest wave of labour action and why is it happening now? Sarah is the author of two wonderful books - Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone (2021), and Necessary Trouble, Americans in Revolt (2016). She is also a co-host of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive.
    02/06/2023
    52:48
  • A Planetary Fever-Dream: reflections on eco-socialism w/ Richard Seymour
    MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today at patreon.com/macrodose to hear the full version of this interview, as well as our episodes with Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis, labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, and former finance trader Gary Stevenson. You’ll also gain access to our upcoming interviews with housing reporter Vicky Spratt, and economist Isabella Weber. Our guest today is Richard Seymour. Richard is a writer, broadcaster and the author of numerous books, including: Against Austerity, Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, and The Twittering Machine. This winding discussion focuses on Richard's most recent book, The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism. We discuss the politics of climate breakdown, and the kinds of political subjectivities that must be made through, and in the face of, such existential ecological crisis.
    01/06/2023
    14:22
  • Episode 26: Tory price caps?
    On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the possibility of price caps on essential goods from the Tories (2.07), Rachel Reeves’ speech in Washington DC to lay out her vision for the economy, are Labour turning to Bidenomics (9.44)? And a listener question - how do we balance the need to grow more food in Britain, with the need to build more houses (16.18)?  This week at Macrodose we’re celebrating our six month anniversary. We’ve really enjoyed bringing you Macrodose each week and this wouldn’t have been possible without you!  A massive thank you to The Lipman-Miliband Trust for supporting our work. Their help has been a major step towards this show being sustainable in the long term but we still need your help. If you have the means, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today. We want to hear from you! Leave a comment or get in touch at [email protected]
    31/05/2023
    21:44
  • Episode 25: Is there WIFI in here?
    On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the looming prospect of another summer of droughts, what’s next for the UK's failing water systems (0:43), last year’s mass broadband cancellations (4:52) and a listener question  - what are some good examples of countries taxing assets properly (9:50)? A massive thank you to The Lipman-Miliband Trust for supporting our work. Their help is a major step towards this show being sustainable in the long term but we still need your help. If you have the means, head over to patreon.com/Macrodose and subscribe today. We want to hear from you! Leave a comment or get in touch at [email protected]
    24/05/2023
    15:52

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