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The 25-years after World War II were a golden age for much of the world. The end of that era in 1973 brought financial crisis, high unemployment, e...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
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Tonight we’re speaking with Philip Mirowski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Never Let...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 57:40
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Technology veteran and now author, Antonio García Martínez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkeys. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacen...
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- Added: Aug 11, 2016
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Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...
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- Added: May 11, 2016
- Length: 28:59
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Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Ford about his new book, which looks at how new technologies could soon make many jobs obsolete.
- Added: Jan 22, 2016
- Length: 30:37
When you’re given instructions that you feel are morally wrong, do you speak up? A number of studies over the past 50-years conclude that the major...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Livestock, especially cattle, are Public Enemy Number One. That’s been the perceived wisdom for decades. It’s thought that cattle erode soils, poll...
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- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...
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- Added: Aug 13, 2014
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We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France it’s more than ten percent; Israel is above seven percent; and...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 28:58
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This book is not your dry read about markets and stocks. It’s the “Next Big Think” according to the publisher, Select Books. Cultural Economist Sai...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 28:57
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David was looking for a slingshot. Goliath had money and power. This is the story of the fight against proposed and granted casinos in Philadelphia.
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- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 28:57
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We’ve all heard the stories of self-driving cars and 3D printers, but it’s the folks like futurists Simon Anderson and Jack Uldrich who make a care...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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The explosive growth of online communities for sharing, swapping, trading and lending is reinventing the way that we consume and build relationship...
- Added: Jun 12, 2013
- Length: 42:10
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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Dr. Marina Adshade provides a fascinating look at just how central the interplay of libido, gender, love, power and economic forces is to the most ...
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- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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