The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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A podcast from the Rhodes Center for International Finance and Economics at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Hosted by political economist and director of the Rhodes Center, Mark Blyth.

Episode Date
The role of universities in a democratic society (a collaboration with “Brown 2026”)
Jun 20, 2025
Why the left keeps losing (or does it)?
May 16, 2025
Imagining the macroeconomy in interwar Poland
Apr 11, 2025
The puzzling politics of inequality
Mar 07, 2025
Why capitalism can’t solve the climate crisis
Dec 20, 2024
Why we think what we think, when we think about inflation
Nov 22, 2024
Why we ran out of everything during the pandemic, and why it had less to do with the pandemic and more to do with the corporations that made us much more vulnerable to it
Oct 04, 2024
The expulsion of politics? What the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility tells us about the limits of technocracy
Jun 08, 2024
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad
Apr 30, 2024
How asset managers came to own everything and you failed to notice
Mar 25, 2024
The business side of fighting climate change
Dec 08, 2023
An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality: A Conversation with Sir Angus Deaton
Nov 21, 2023
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 3): houses, micro states, finance, carbon
Oct 21, 2023
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 2): growth models at scale
Sep 22, 2023
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)
Aug 10, 2023
Does economics do more harm than good? And if it does, how would we know harm when we see it?
Jun 06, 2023
Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions
Apr 29, 2023
A wee podcast on the last 50 - and next 50 - years of the global world order
Apr 14, 2023
The ‘free market’ is a fever dream and Adam Smith wasn’t in it
Mar 31, 2023
State power in China: more "Parks and Rec" than command and control?
Mar 10, 2023
What Mark Blyth Got Wrong About Bidenomics and Climate Change
Feb 17, 2023
Why Undoing Globalization is Going to Be a Painful Affair
Dec 16, 2022
This Week in ‘Ask a Philosopher’: Is the ‘American Dream' Dead?
Nov 04, 2022
How Did We End Up with the Idea of a Growing Economy? ‘The Journey of Humanity’ with Oded Galor
Jul 11, 2022
What if I told you that international money is governed by no more than the beliefs of a handful of super-connected global elites…and yet there is no conspiracy. Would you be interested?
Jun 17, 2022
Can Social Media and Democracy Co-exist? A Conversation with Frances Haugen
May 27, 2022
The Global Roots of Neomercantilism
Apr 08, 2022
Fiona Hill on Deindustrialization, Despair and Demagoguery
Mar 11, 2022
The Past, Present, and Contested Future of Central Banks
Feb 25, 2022
‘How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Policy” with Elizabeth Popp Berman
Feb 11, 2022
The Forgotten History of “The Labor Board Crew”: How Mediators at the US Labor Board Changed Organized Labor (and the World)
Jan 28, 2022
America Has Always Been a 'Credit Nation'
Dec 08, 2021
The Other Problem with Ratings Agencies
Oct 01, 2021
'Bidenomics': Policy Change or Paradigm Shift?
Jun 03, 2021
The Robots May Be Coming, But Probably Not for Your Job
Apr 08, 2021
How Precarity Puts Capitalism on Edge
Mar 16, 2021
Is Now the Time for a Federal Jobs Guarantee?
Feb 10, 2021
The Left, Divided Over the Extraction Economy
Dec 10, 2020
Austerity Myths and the Health of Nations: What Malawi Tells Us About the Construction of Scarcity
Nov 22, 2020
How Fraud Explains the Economy
Nov 16, 2020
Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Nov 06, 2020
Why Does the EU Have a Legitimacy Problem?
Aug 07, 2020
Do Deficits Matter? (MMT Explained)
Jul 15, 2020
The Fraught, Complex, and Important 'Economics of Belonging'
Jun 25, 2020
Populism, or 'Anti-System Politics'?
Jun 17, 2020
How US Hegemony Ends
Jun 12, 2020
Possibilities for a Post-Covid Economy
May 29, 2020
The First Globalist: Sandy Zipp Talks Wendell Willkie’s World
May 15, 2020
The Corona Oil Shock
May 03, 2020
State Capacity, Growth Models, and Coronavirus in Latin America
Apr 27, 2020
'Leftism Reinvented' with Stephanie Mudge
Mar 25, 2020
Experts and the National Interest: The Curious Case of China and the US
Mar 12, 2020
What’s Next? The Post-American Global Economy
Mar 04, 2020
Rethinking Economic Paternalism
Feb 14, 2020
The 'Code of Capital' with Katharina Pistor
Dec 09, 2019
Corporate Governance in the Digital Age
Nov 19, 2019
Economic Narratives and 'Uncertain Futures'
Nov 01, 2019
The 99% Economy with Paul Adler
Oct 24, 2019
A Progressive Case for Free Trade with Kimberly Clausing
Sep 23, 2019
Aidan Regan: Economic Ideas and Real Politics
Sep 07, 2019
Zsófia Barta: Understanding the Politics of Public Debt
May 11, 2019
Ling Chen: New Insights on the 'Made in China' Model
Apr 13, 2019
William Rhodes: Connecting the Dots, from Venezuela to China and Beyond
Mar 25, 2019
Marco Buti – Inclusive Multilateralism as a Response to Economic Nationalism?
Nov 11, 2018
Paul Tucker – Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Oct 22, 2018
Dani Rodrik – From Globalization to Hyper-Globalization and Back
Oct 09, 2018
Rick Perlstein - Jimmy Carter and the Origins of the Democratic Party Cult of Austerity
Oct 06, 2018
Quinn Slobodian – Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Sep 28, 2018
Ilene Grabel – When Things Don't Fall Apart
Sep 20, 2018
Bill Janeway – Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
Sep 18, 2018