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Fifty Years After ‘The Limits to Growth’: Dennis Meadows interviewed by Juan BorderaFifty Years After ‘The Limits to Growth’: Dennis Meadows interviewed by Juan BorderaDennis Meadows: Climate change, inflation, food shortages are symptoms of a bigger problem.
Superestructura: Latin America EditionSuperestructura: Latin America EditionMoney on the Left is thrilled to release English and Spanish transcripts from our Superstructure podcast with Daniel Rojas Medellin (@DanielRMed), now Coordinator of newly inaugurated President Gustavo Petro’s transition team (@petrogustavo), and Mexican economist Jesús Reséndiz Silva (@Tlacuachito). In the episode, co-hosts Andrés Bernal (@andresintheory) & Naty Smith (@orangeasm) speak with Medellin and Silva about what it means to think beyond economic orthodoxies in Latin America.
Review: ‘COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of our Time’Review: ‘COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of our Time’Covid-19 and the Structural Crises of our Time (CSCT) is a very timely and important book, written by Mah-Hui Lim, a one-time sociology professor who went on to work in international banking, and Michael Heng Siam-Hang, a former professor of management studies.
Manufacturing consent: How the United States has penetrated South African mediaManufacturing consent: How the United States has penetrated South African mediaAs tensions between the United States and China rise, Washington is intent on contesting Beijing’s influence around the world, particularly in the Global South. The U.S. government has ramped up its efforts to influence international media and public opinion. In this new Cold War, South Africa is once again in the crosshairs.
Cloud Money with Brett ScottCloud Money with Brett ScottBrett Scott joins Money on the Left to discuss his recently published book Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for our Wallets (Harper-Collins 2022). A committed advocate for financial heterodoxy, Scott grounds his perspicuous critique of “cloudmoney”--the conjoined efforts and outcomes of Big Finance and Big Tech’s drive to go “cashless”-- in his anthropological training and work as financial derivatives trader in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis.
