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Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/zESIeEbArkg

Here’s a video, with much the same discussion, although with some more information and a Q&A. Again, do check it out!

One of the most politically inspiring things I’ve come across since I became aware of the Occupy movement. The Job Guarantee is the Modern Monetary Theory answer to basic income schemes, be they universal or not. The sheer brutal uselessness of keeping people unemployed as a political choice, while at the same time blaming those unemployed for not destroying their own bodies in the shittiest, most demeaning work available in the private sector is one of the most toxic and disastrous results of the last four neoliberal decades, and, I am sure, one of the largest sources of the recurring surges of support for fascist politicians. Now I’ve been in pointless jobs, and I love the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber... and yet, I cannot but feel that a clearly stated demand for a job guarantee more efficiently addresses the issues today facing the precariously employed or unemployed, not to mention those currently stuck in what might be called bullshit jobs. I think it might tap into the seething sea of unrealized potential for personal growth and creativity held at bay by forcing people into economic precariousness. I think it might be the way to deal with the pollution and degradation of our ecosystems and environments. It’s far from a panacea treating all the economic ills of unequal societies, but it might just be a step in the direction of reducing working hours across the board, re-focusing the economic activities of society to what is sustainable, and just letting people live without fear of starvation in societies that produce more food than can be consumed, and more empty houses than there are homeless. I think it is one of the better ideas out there, for creating better societies going forward and coming out of the pandemic. So please, have a listen. It shouldn’t even matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum.

Fed. Defends the ‘Creditor’s Paradise’ – Mark Blyth | theAnalysis.news “Well, we have done over the past 30 years is to build a creditor’s paradise of positive real interest rates, low inflation, open markets, beaten down unions and a retreating state, all policed by unelected economic officials and central banks that have only one target to keep such a creditor’s paradise going in such a world.

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Mark Blyth, Director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs talks with Professor Jeff Colgan, the Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, about why Oil is still a big story and why we need to pay it more attention.

Mark Blyth: TMBS Emergency Economics Series