#capitalisnt — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalisnt, aggregated by home.social.
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Maybe the best conversation you're gonna hear about economics and this election. I just wish it was longer. #Capitalisnt
https://pca.st/episode/f75d82e9-0201-4975-95e8-b842b1f530c7 -
"If you look around our country, there's almost no area of our political economy, and culture, and society, that is not being strategically planned by corporations."
#RalphNader, 2024
https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/ralph-naders-capitalism-8KbK0HGj
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Great interview with #RalphNader by #Capitalisnt. From the University of Chicago business school, but one of the hosts wrote a fantastic book about being pro market but not pro business. Please listen.
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In his new book, Harvard Professor @jciv discusses the challenges of concentrated financial power and its impact on markets, economies, and society.
Listen to our interview with him on #Capitalisnt: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/capitalisnt-when-few-financial-institutions-control-everything#
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Anybody know if #EmilyHund is here? She wrote the book #TheInfluencerIndustry about social media, #algos and #propaganda. Here's a short interview with #Capitalisnt. It's wild to hear the hosts kinda struggle with waking up to how #ManufacturingConsent works.
https://pca.st/episode/cb523eed-bc8a-4416-a1c1-384fc73bd025 -
NEW on #Capitalisnt:
Dissecting new financial developments, Stanford professor Anat Admati joins Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales to discuss how the current system is rigged — and how we can build and regulate a more accountable financial system.Listen: https://lnkd.in/grPjw6-q
Also, read an excerpt from the new and expanded edition of Admati's book (with Martin Hellwig), "The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It" (@princetonupress):
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"Crypto is money that can only be created by computer scientists who don't understand history."
#LuigiZingales, 2023
https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-capitalisnt-of-crypto-sbf-and-beyond-with-zeke-faux-yRM_YTYZ
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In their brand new book, "The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind" (Penguin Random House), Bethany McLean and her co-author Joe Nocera argue that the #COVID19 pandemic was not simply a natural disaster but also a man-made one.
A new episode of #Capitalisnt: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-capitalisnt-of-the-us-covid-response-with-bethany-mclean
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What if we delegated democratic leadership to the masses?
Yale University political scientist Hélène Landemore joins Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean on #Capitalisnt to talk through her radical new vision of "Open Democracy" from her book (@princetonupress).
Listen: https://lnkd.in/gFAXV53r
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MIT economist David Autor is best known for his work on the “China Shock,” the impact of rising Chinese exports on manufacturing employment in the United States and Europe after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
His most recent work sheds light on which groups have seen the largest nominal wage gains during the #COVID recovery, the connections between wage growth and #inflation, and much more. Read our #Capitalisnt interview: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/capitalisnt-can-labor-markets-save-capitalism?sc_lang=en -
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Another common rejoinder you're likely to encounter as we banish Bork to the scrapheap of history: "You can't break up a company like Google - that's like #UnscramblingAnEgg." This week on the #Capitalisnt podcast, #DinaSrinivasan makes short work of this claim, pointing out that if Google's CEO announced that he was spinning the #adtech businesses out as standalones, he'd be praised for his vision and the stock price would shoot up.
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NEW on #Capitalisnt: China's "moment of panic": We discuss the implications of a historic crossroads in #China's political economy with Chicago Booth's Chang-Tai Hsieh.
Listen now on all podcast platforms:
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Our latest #Capitalisnt episode is based on data and insight from "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success," a new book by Leah Boustan and Ran Abramitzky.
Here's co-host Luigi Zingales in a preview. Listen now:
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In mid-2021, Lord Mervyn King (former Governor of the Bank of England and Emeritus Professor of Economics, LSE) joined #Capitalisnt and was almost singular (compared to other experts) in predicting the inflation that we see today. Now, as we look back on 2022, he rejoins us with a somewhat more optimistic outlook on what may happen next. Listen now on all podcast platforms. https://capitalisnt.simplecast.com/episodes/he-foresaw-inflation-heres-what-he-expects-next-feat-lord-mervyn-king
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On this episode of #Capitalisnt, @pluralistic discusses negative effects of concentration, why the doctrine that gave us these effects is inadequate, and what could be done to return more power & profits to creative workers.
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/capitalisnt-taylor-swift-ticketmaster-chokepoint-capitalism
(transcript via Chicago Booth Review)
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Why were so many #TaylorSwift fans unable to secure tickets for her upcoming US tour?
Many have pointed to market power concentration in creative industries, and how it affects the creative class and consumers. In a new book (co-authored with scholar Rebecca Giblin), @pluralistic – a renowned writer and activist – calls this ‘capture’ of creative labor markets "Chokepoint Capitalism."
Listen now to a new episode of #Capitalisnt: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-and-chokepoint-capitalism-with-cory-doctorow