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A podcast from the Rhodes Center for International Finance and Economics at Brown University, hosted by political economist and director of the Rhodes Center, Mark Blyth.
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On this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Erik Peinert, an assistant professor of political science at Boston University, about his new book “M...
Not so long ago, it appeared to many observers that economic globalization, political liberalization and geopolitical stability were an unst...
The global rise of authoritarianism today is a puzzle: democracies were supposed to be immune to such impulses, but the current political la...
In December, the Rhodes Center hosted Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, to discuss his new book “Capi...
For as long as this thing we call “capitalism” has existed, it has had its fair share of critics. (You’ve heard more than a few of them on t...
Lithium is an essential ingredient of most modern electronics. It helps to power our phones, our laptops, and increasingly EVs and other key...
This is the second part of a two-part series featuring Leah Downey, a political economist at King’s College London and author of the new boo...
This is the first in a two-part series featuring Leah Downey, political theorist at King’s College London and author of the new book “Our Mo...
What’s the role of a university in a democratic society? What responsibility do universities have to foster the public good, and what respon...
On this episode, Mark talks with two guests to try and understand why, despite growing right populist movements emerging and winning electio...
On this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Małgorzata Mazurek, a historian, associate professor of Polish Studies at Columbia University, and au...
In this episode, Mark Blyth talks with two inequality experts to try and understand something that’s been bugging him for years. It goes lik...
To state the obvious, there are many hurdles to addressing the climate crisis in a meaningful way. However, there’s been one relatively brig...
This is a new experiment we’re trying at the Rhodes Center Podcast. From time to time, going forward, instead of focusing on one expert and...
Remember the supply chain problems of 2020 and 2021? The story we were told was that the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the global economy's ab...
When it comes to governing our economy, estimates rule the day. We want to know what effect a policy might have on the government’s budget,...
When you think of high-end luxury commodities, you might imagine yachts, private jets, or even whole islands. But in the last few years, ano...
Listeners of the Rhodes Center Podcast have probably heard of companies like Black Rock, State Street and Vanguard. You’ve also probably hea...
On this podcast, you’ve heard from a range of experts about the policies and politics of decarbonization. But what does the fight against cl...
In 2015, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a paper that revealed something startling: an increase in mortality rates in the Un...
This is part three in our companion series to the book “Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation” (co-edited by Mark B...
This is part two in our companion series to the book “Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation” (co-edited by Mark Bly...
This is the first in a three-part series on Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, a book co-edited by Mark Blyth,...
In 1849, the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle referred to economics as the “dismal science.” The pejorative stuck, and is still slun...
On this episode Mark Blyth talks with this year’s invited speaker at the Rhodes Center’s annual 'Ethics of Capitalism’ lecture series, journ...
The history of international politics since 1945. The role of values in the global economy. The future of America’s relationship with China....
One concept that comes up a lot on the Rhodes Center Podcast: the idea of the 'free market’. The idea, as you might know it, begins with Joh...
On the last episode of the podcast, Mark talked with two experts regarding the Inflation Reduction Act, and the political and logistical cha...
Over the last two years, if you had asked Mark Blyth if the Biden administration would ever do anything meaningful to fight climate change,...
In the last few years, globalization has gotten an increasingly a bad rap. Whether because of increasing geopolitical tensions over high end...
This episode is a little different than the type of conversation you normally have on the show. Last year, Mark spoke with Oded Galor about...
On this episode Mark talks with Oded Galor, Professor of Economics at Brown University, and author of the new book The Journey of Humanity:...
There’s a standard story economists and historians use to explain the global economy over the last 100 years: there was the gold standard, w...
From 2019 to 2021, Frances Haugen worked as a Product Manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department. During that time she got an inside v...
In the last few years we’ve seen critiques of free trade from across the political spectrum. Trump focused on the US-China trade imbalance,...
On this episode Mark talks with Dr. Fiona Hill about her new book There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Cen...
The Rhodes Center Podcast explores the most important issues in finance and economics through straightforward, candid conversations with the...
On this episode Mark talks with Elizabeth Popp Berman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, and author of Thinking Like an...
On this episode Mark talks with Ron Schatz, Professor of History at Wesleyan University and author of the new book The Labor Board Crew. In...
On this episode: a conversation with Claire Priest. Claire is a historian and Professor at Yale Law School, and author of the book Credit Na...
The Rhodes Center Podcast explores some of the most important and complex issues in the world of finance and economics through straightforwa...
On this episode Mark talks with economist and Brown Professor John Friedman. They discuss why decreasing income inequality is good for econo...
Most discussions about AI and the future of work tend to go in one of two directions: either excitement for a ‘post-work’ utopia, or alarm o...
On this episode Mark talks with Albena Azmanova, IWM Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Studies in Vienna and author of ‘Capitalism...
On this episode Mark talks with economist Pavlina Tcherneva about a policy proposal that’s bubbling under in the US policy debate: the creat...
On this episode Mark talks with Thea Riofrancos. Thea is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and author of tw...
On this episode Mark talks with Luke Messac, physician, historian, and author of ‘No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity...
On this episode Mark talks with economist Dan Davies about his book ‘Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World....
On this episode Mark talks with political economist Brett Christophers. Brett’s a Professor at Uppsala University, and author of ‘Rentier Ca...
In this episode Mark talks with Boston University Professor Vivien Schmidt. Schmidt is an expert in the political economy of the European Un...
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