Aug 30, 2021
The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book "The Divide", about global inequality, its historical origins, and possible solutions in the future.
Aug 24, 2021
The book club returns, with a two-part review and overview of anthropologist Jason Hickel's book "The Divide", about global inequality, its historical origins, and possible solutions in the future.
Dec 21, 2020
A bumper episode with a crop of interesting news stories to
round out the year:
-> Uber sells its self-driving car section, and Softbank sells
robot company Boston Dynamics. What can we infer from these moves
about the state of the tech sector?
-> Reports show income inequality rising since 1975 has resulted
in $47...
Oct 28, 2020
In this episode, we talk about why the stock market is increasingly divorced from economic reality, and the fact that COVID-19 is proving to be a great accelerator rather than a great leveller - accelerating the trends towards income and wealth inequality that we have seen over the last 30-40 years, as well...
Oct 8, 2020
Hello and welcome to this episode of Physical Attraction.
We have a special couple of guests on the show today. Listeners to our episodes about QE for the People will remember that we briefly mentioned Modern Monetary Theory as a new perspective on how economics works, and I'd talked about getting some MMT speakers on...