A podcast from the Rhodes Center for International Finance and Economics at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Hosted by political economist and director of the Rhodes Center, Mark Blyth.
http://watson.brown.edu/rhodes
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 9 hours 55 minutes
A Progressive Case for Free Trade with Kimberly Clausing
On this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Kimberly Clausing, author of ‘Open: A Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital’ [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919334]. At a time when free trade is getting a bad rap from every direction, Clausing makes a case for why open borders and free trade are crucial to building a 21st-century economy that works for everyone. You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google...
Aidan Regan: Economic Ideas and Real Politics
On this episode, something a little different. Aidan Regan is an assistant professor at the School of Politics/International Relations at University College Dublin UCD, and has a podcast we think you’ll like. We think you’ll especially like this episode, since he recorded it while at a conference hosted by the Rhodes Center. His guest? Mark Blyth...
Zsófia Barta: Understanding the Politics of Public Debt
Why do rich countries flirt with fiscal disaster? Zsófia Barta, author of In The Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries [https://www.press.umich.edu/9726915/in_the_red], challenges a long-held consensus by arguing that the problem of sustained, large-scale debt accumulation is an adjustment issue rather than a governance failure...
Ling Chen: New Insights on the 'Made in China' Model
The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the 'made in China' model—with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits—has begun to wane. On this episode of the Rhodes Center Podcast, Mark Blyth talks with Ling Chen, author of 'Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China' [https://www.sup...
William Rhodes: Connecting the Dots, from Venezuela to China and Beyond
The Rhodes Center podcast is brought to you by The Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown University. The show is hosted by Mark Blyth and Brendan Greeley. On this episode: the man behind the Rhodes Center, the indomitable William Rhodes. Brown class of '57, international banker, international public servant, and author of 'Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Finance' [https://www.mhprofessional...
Marco Buti – Inclusive Multilateralism as a Response to Economic Nationalism?
Discussion with Mark Blyth, Political Economist at Brown's Watson Institute. Associated Watson Institute lecture: [https://youtu.be/MS1eF1F4YDQ] Marco Buti has been Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission since December 2008, after a 6-month period as acting Director-General. After studies at the Universities of Florence and Oxford, Mr Buti joined the European Commission in 1987...
Paul Tucker – Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Watch accompanying talk at the Watson Institute at Brown University: [https://youtu.be/R-Dxrs7dj0w] Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our economic well-being, yet unlike democratically elected leaders, their power does not come directly from the people. Unelected Power [https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11240...
Dani Rodrik – From Globalization to Hyper-Globalization and Back
“Where does the backlash against globalization come from? Where is it headed? And what would a better globalization look like?” Dani Rodrik [https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu] is an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was previously the Albert O...
Rick Perlstein - Jimmy Carter and the Origins of the Democratic Party Cult of Austerity
The Democratic Party's retreat from its New Deal and Great Society identity as a party eager to use the federal treasury to spend in the public interest to create a broadly shared prosperity is usually associated with the Clinton administration in the 1990s. It actually dates to the Carter administration...
Quinn Slobodian – Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979529] of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Quinn Slobodian [https://www.wellesley...