Rajesh Ramachandran is a postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of economics at Heidelberg University. He completed his doctoral studies in economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. He has have previously held positions at Goethe University, as well as having been a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the field of political linguistics, economics of education and social identity.
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I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week. The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.
The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.
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