The Story of Europe: Terms of Engagement
James Butler traces the EU’s present day faults back to its postwar inception in this bumper Terms of Engagement explaining the historical phenomenon of Europe.
Tag: economics
Interview: Yanis Varoufakis
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis sits down with Aaron Bastani, discussing everything from Nigel Farage to ‘libertarian marxism’ and the future of capitalism.
What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know
John Evans
Greece Say ‘Oxi’, Populism Is Back!
Aaron Bastani responds to the dramatic result of last weekends referendum on austerity in Greece and looks to the rest of Europe and the upcoming British referendum on EU membership for signs of a new wave of populism.
What’s Going On In Greece?
Ahead of this Sunday’s referendum on EU-imposed austerity measures, Aaron Bastani looks at the present state of Greece’s economy, how things got so bad, and what the future might hold for other Eurozone countries.
Why Is Britain A Post-Industrial Economy?
Aaron Bastani explains how Britain changed from a manufacturing economy to a service-dominated economy.
Space Capitalism or Green Austerity?
What utopias, or dystopias, does capitalism have to offer in response to a climate crisis? Aaron Bastani looks at two possibilities: Space Capitalism and Green Austerity.
UK Gov’t Deficit Lies & The Global Economic Meltdown
Aaron Bastani talks deficits, debt and the future of the global economy in 2015.
10 Ways Official Inflation Stats Are Masking Rising Inequality
James Meadway
8 Reasons You Need to Care About the Caring Economy
Polly Trenow
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Housing and the UK Economy
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by the Guardian’s senior economics commentator, Aditya Chakrabortty.
‘Growth is Not Great’
On ‘Growth is Not Great‘ James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss the ideology of economic growth. How has it become so central in debates about the ‘good society’?
Is There Such a Thing as ‘The Real Economy’?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the idea of the ‘real economy’ as being independent from the supposedly ‘unreal’ financial economy. Does this binary still cohere with the observable workings of contemporary production in the 21st century?