ANGUS DEATON won the Nobel prize in Economics for work accomplished before he and his wife, economist Ann Case, wrote DEATHS OF DESPAIR and the Future of Capitalism. Pre pandemic, life expectancy in the US was no longer rising, and already falling among adults without 4 years of college, due in large part to alcoholism, drug overdoses, and suicides. In his newest book, ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, Deaton reflects on 25 years of his writings from the perspective of 2023. He’s takes a hard look at the field of economics, and its role in a society and an economy that leaves out so many. His last words in this conversation: “I made a lot of mistakes in my life, and it's good to be able to live long enough to be able to acknowledge them.” You can learn more at deaton.scholar.princeton.edu
Episode 625: UNLIKELY BROTHERS (2011)-John Prendergast & Michael Mattocks talk about their 25 year Big Brother-Little Brother relationship
Episode 624: ZEV YAROSLAVSKY - 40 years of public service - ZEV’S LOS ANGELES: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power
Episode 623: MARSHALL GANZ-Public Narrative - Key to Successful Organizing
Episode 622: NELSON LICHTENSTEIN -Labor Is Delivering + Bill Clinton, Fabulous Failure?
Episode 621: MICHIO KAKU-QUANTUM SUPREMACY: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
Episode 620: NANCY MAC LEAN (2018)-DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America - a long march to minority rule
Episode 619: JOANNA SCHWARTZ-SHIELDED: How the Police Became Untouchable
Episode 618: Warnings of the ’08 crash - (1) KEVIN PHILLIPS (April 2008) Bad Money - (2) ROBERT FRANK (July 2007) Falling Behind. Phillips died October 9.
Episode 617: Are unions making a comeback? STEVEN GREENHOUSE, longtime NYTimes labor correspondent
Episode 616: MICHAEL LEWIS (2010)-THE BIG SHORT- in which one of the great “explainers” defines a lot of terms.
Episode 615: TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY-DANIEL ZIBLATT-Why has American democracy reached the breaking point?
Episode 614: The NOT Great Escape-JONATHAN TAPLIN-THE END OF REALITY: Four Billionaires’ Fantasy of the Metaverse, Mars, Crypto, and Immortality
Episode 613: MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS-JONATHAN TAPLIN (2018)-How Facebook, Google & Amazon Cornered Culture & Undermined Democracy
Episode 612: JEFF GOODELL-THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Episode 611: How will Boomers pass the torch? PHILIP BUMP-The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
Episode 610: Reviving Discarded America—MICHELLE WILDE ANDERSON-Fighting to Save Our Towns
Episode 609: ERWIN CHEMERINSKY-Supreme Court 2023-ethical challenges and radical rulings
Episode 608: THOM HARTMANN-The Hidden History of American Democracy’s roots in Native American society
Episode 607: The politics of climate-STAN COX & JOHN FEFFER-Minority rule strikes again
Episode 606: LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD-How Change Happens: Why Some Movements Succeed While Others Don’t
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