About this podcast
Exploring the realm between legal structures and collective psychology.
Episodes
- Spinoza's Geometry of Human Emotion · 41 min · Episode 16A Google NotebookLM generated podcast: Spinoza's Ethics is written like a geometry textbook, with axioms, definitions and step-by-step proofs, and argues that the human mind gets…
- Herbert Marcuse: The Paradox of Repressive Tolerance · 40 min · Episode 15A Google NotebookLM generated podcast: Herbert Marcuse's essay, Repressive Tolerance, argues that the traditional liberal concept of universal tolerance has become a tool for…
- The Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies · 31 min · Episode 7A Google NotebookLM generated podcast: The Cambridge capital theory controversies debated the validity of neoclassical economics' aggregate production functions and the…
- Luigi Fabbri: Bourgeois Influences on Anarchist Thought and Propaganda · 12 min · Episode 14The text, excerpted from Luigi Fabbri’s "Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism" (Influenze borghesi sull'anarchismo), analyses the complex relationship between anarchist movements…
- Pavlina R. Tcherneva and L. Randall Wray: That Vision Thing: Formulating a Winning Policy Agenda · 15 min · Episode 13The 2024 Democratic loss stems from failing to articulate an economic vision for the working class. It analyses voting trends showing Democrats losing their traditional…
- Mathew Forstater & Geoffrey Ingham: Tax-Driven Money and Credit Theory of Money · 10 min · Episode 12Notebook LM generated. The Credit Theory posits that money's essence is not as a physical commodity, but as a social relation representing debt/credit. All participants in a…
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan · 31 min · Episode 11This AI generated podcast delves into Hobbes' classic treatise on liberty, emphasizing that true freedom isn’t an inherent quality but rather the absence of external constraints…
- Nicholas Kaldor: The Expenditure Tax · 24 min · Episode 10Google Notebook LM generated: This document by Nicholas Kaldor provides an overview of the concept of an expenditure tax, as detailed in the Advisory Commission on…
- Max Weber: The Methodenstreit · 13 min · Episode 9Google LM generated:This article examines Max Weber's approach to the Methodenstreit, a late 19th-century debate in economics about methodology. It contrasts Weber's integrated…
- Chris Hayes: Hip Heterodoxy · 14 min · Episode 8An 2007 Nation article by Chris Hayes about the current state of the economics discipline read using the Kokoro AI generated voice.
- L. Randall Wray: The Value of Money: A Survey of Heterodox Approaches · 26 min · Episode 6Google LM generated podcast: This Levy Economics Institute working paper surveys heterodox economic theories of money's value, rejecting orthodox views linking it solely to…
- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation · 12 min · Episode 5This excerpt from Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation explores the concept of simulation and its impact on reality. Baudrillard argues that simulation has superseded…
- David Graeber: Creative Refusal · 20 min · Episode 4Google LM generated: David Graeber explores the concept of "culture as creative refusal," arguing that many cultural forms arise not organically but as conscious rejections of…
- The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' · 9 min · Episode 3This article argues that using the phrase ”taxpayer money” is harmful because it perpetuates a myth that only certain groups of people contribute to society, particularly…
- Jason Stanley: How Fascism Works · 13 min · Episode 2NotebookLM generated podcast: Fascist politics uses nostalgia and fabricated narratives of a glorious past built on “traditional values” to garner support for its authoritarian…
- Pavlina Tcherneva: The Case for a Job Guarantee · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 1This working paper from the Levy Economics Institute proposes a policy solution to the problem of involuntary unemployment in the United States: the Job Guarantee (JG). This…
