On Mental Health and Economic Justice

We speak with Tabita Green about income inequality and rates of mental illness. Tabita Green is an author, speaker, content strategist, and community organizer. In 2011, she left her high-powered corporate job to focus on family, health, and community building. After three years of research into mental health and resilience for her book, Her Lost Year, she believes humanity’s future health and happiness depends on the creation of resilient, sustainable communities and a society focused on equality, justice, and dignity for all people. Tabita discovered blogs over a decade ago and has been blogging ever since. Her blog at tabitagreen.com inspires readers to take action for personal wellness, social justice, and a sustainable future.

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Thinking Small: The Nobel Prize in Economics

We speak with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven about the Nobel Prize in Economics (and what it says about the state of the economics profession). Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of York. She is also founder and Editor of the blog Developing Economics, Associate Editor of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, member of the Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics, affiliated faculty at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and the Environment, member of the editorial board of Third World Thematics, member of Reteaching Economics, and founding advisory board member of Rethinking Economics – Norway.

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Has Instagram Ruined Architecture and Design?

We talk with Alexandra Lange about social media and design. Alexandra Lange is the architecture critic for Curbed and author of “The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids.”

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Explained. (I finally understand.)

We speak with Gerald Epstein about MMT. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including financial crisis and regulation, alternative approaches to central banking for employment generation and poverty reduction, economists’ ethics and capital account management and capital flows and the political economy of financial markets and institutions.

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Guy Standing on Rentier Capitalism and the Precariat

We talk with Guy Standing about the precariat class. This is a very special episode. The conversation fundamentally changed the way I understand things. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014).

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The Wild World of Medical Debt

We talk with Olga Khazan about what happens when you don’t pay your hospital bill. Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

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Understanding Class Warfare

We speak with Ramaa Vasudevan about class war. Ramaa Vasudevan is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Colorado State University. She completed her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York. Her research engages with the political economy of money and finance. She is a Catalyst editorial board member.

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Chile Explodes

With speak with Kenneth M. Roberts about the protests in Chile. Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. His teaching and research interests are focused on parties, popular movements, and the politics of inequality. He is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford University Press), and co-editor of The Diffusion of Social Movements (Cambridge University Press) and The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press).

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The Border-Industrial Complex

We talk with Todd Miller about the militarization of the border. Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places.

Miller has authored three books: The forthcoming Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019),  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

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The Egyptian Economy: On the Brink of Collapse?

We speak with Maged Mandour about the Egyptian economy, the protests against al-Sisi, and what Western powers want from the regime. Maged Mandour graduated from Cambridge with a Masters in International Relations. He is a political analyst and the columnist of “Chronicles of the Arab Revolt” on openDemocracy. He is also a writer for Sada, the online journal for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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