Podcast: Economics & Beyond
For Benjamin: Songs of Power, Innocence and Experience
Influential music and film producer Shep Gordon (named among the 100 most influential people by Rolling Stone) discusses how he helped bring the art of cooking to public awareness, what makes for true happiness, becoming a father to Benjamin at over 70, and the importance of power and innocence. Subscribe and Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | YouTube
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
UMass Amherst professor and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin discusses his latest book that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky
Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency
David Fenton, founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications
Can Biden Successfully Govern?
There is no Alternative Beyond Cooperation or Extinction
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, talks about the love-hate relationship between the US and China and how both sides must learn to cooperate to address the world’s most pressing problems
What the West Can and Cannot Learn from China
Rodney Jones, a long-time Asia analyst, colleague of Rob Johnson’s, and currently Principal of Wigram Capital Advisors in New Zealand, discusses how China and other Pacific Rim countries succeeded in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means for the West’s rivalry with China