Tag: political economy

• FT News Briefing: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Trump’s ‘vibecession’

  November 30, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/DV7Zmfk As President Donald Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his second term in office, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, and Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman sit… more ›

• Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

  July 6, 2025

  Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/katrina-forrester/i-appreciate-depreciation more ›

• The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | Verso Books

  June 1, 2025

  An excerpt from Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism, one of the clearest articulations of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Understanding this transition is important for distinguishing the… more ›

• Why we need an energy revolution – with Helen Thompson

  May 18, 2025

  “The term energy transition is actually a misnomer. It should really be called…an energy revolution.” Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, talks about what the energy transition… more ›

• The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart: America’s Factory Reset with Adam Tooze and Sohrab Ahmari

  March 27, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/CgpQsMw As the Trump administration pursues a dramatic economic realignment, we're joined by Adam Tooze, author of Chartbook on Substack, and Sohrab Ahmari, US Editor of UnHerd and author… more ›