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One of the worlds leading Marxist economists talks to us about the recent problems of inflation, class politics, and the global economy. Check out Lapavitsas's latest collaborative efforts here: You can listen to the audio-only version of this event in our podcast feed, or you can watch the livestream via YouTube, below:
Hey everyone and welcome back to Rupture Radio! This week we have a special episode for you with an interview with Costas Lapavitsas on his latest article in issue 11 of Rupture 'Making Sense of the Interregnum since 2007-9' , co-written with Nicolas Aguila Costas walks us through the developments in the world economy before, during and after the financial crash, the growing internalisation of finance and production and globalization and what this means for the socialist movement now. You can read Costas and Nicolás' article in the newest issue of Rupture, which can be purchased here or subscribe so you never miss an issue! This article is inspired by a book written by Costas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective titled: The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony which you can buy from Verso ---- Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's Eco-Socialist Quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. Sign up today at https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio Any comments or queries please send them to LeftInsidePod@gmail.com or get in touch on Twitter. See you next week, cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ruptureradio/message
Ex-Syriza man and SOAS prof Costas Lapavitsas joins us to raise hell about the EU, Bidenomics, the economic effects of COVID lockdowns, new multipolar uprisings, and who screwed up worse: the Greek or the UK left? PLUS his new book with EReNSEP Writing Collective, The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow
Costas Lapvitsas, Marxist, economist and politician talking at Scoil Chois Claí 2023 on the island of Inis Oírr Co. Galway and giving a superb analysis on the transformation of global capitalism and the threat of imperialism, whose depredations we are being reminded of once more...
To understand why the European Union exists and how it is changing due to the financial crisis and the war in Ukraine, Rania Khalek was joined by Costas Lapavitsas, a professor of economics at SOAS, author of “The Left Case Against the EU” and a former Syriza MP. He also has a forthcoming book out in 2023 called “The State of Capitalism” published by Verso Books. Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts.Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRKTIME CODES: 0:00 Intro2:08 What is the EU?6:24 What happens if Ukraine joins the EU?10:32 Evolution of European left's view of the EU18:48 EU as an anti-democratic arrangement 26:41 EU creates European periphery and core30:55 Common currency: the Euro33:42 How Germany came out on top39:38 Germany's conditional hegemony 45:16 American hegemony over Europe52:05 Freedom of capital to move cheap labor 1:03:18 Far right vs the EU?1:08:25 How the left responds1:12:06 The state of capitalism today
Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author Dr Phil Armstrong about his recent paper, which is a response to a Marxist critique of Modern Monetary Theory with reference to the Eurozone and Greece. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast For an intro to MMT: Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417 All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643 All our episodes with Phil Armstrong: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42072846 Stay current with Phil via Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilArmstrong58 “A modern monetary theory advocate's response to ‘modern monetary theory on money, sovereignty, and policy: A marxist critique with reference to the Eurozone and Greece' by Costas Lapavitsas and Nicolás Aguila (2020)” by Phil Armstrong: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2329194X.2022.2051720 “Time For Informed Change. Post Covid-19 Economics” by Phil Armstrong & Nick Potts: https://gimms.org.uk/2020/08/13/time-for-informed-change-post-covid-19-economics/ Register for events at the Modern Money Network's 4th Annual MMT Conference: https://events.modernmoney.network/category/7/ For more on the MMT Summer School in Poznań, Poland: https://fundacjalipinskiego.pl/wydarzenia/mmt-summer-school-2022/ Episode 72 - Steven Hail: The External Sector: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43043601 Sign up for alerts from The Gower Initiative For Modern Money Studies about their forthcoming MMT book: https://gimms.org.uk/ Episode 55 - Dirk Ehnts: A Way Forward For The Eurozone: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38252014 The Mosler Plan for Greece: http://moslereconomics.com/2011/06/29/the-mosler-plan-for-greece/ More on monetary operations: Episode 126 - Dirk Ehnts: How Banks Create Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62603318 Episode 13 - Steven Hail: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Banking, But Were Afraid To Ask: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41790887 Episode 43 - Sam Levey: Understanding Endogenous Money: https://www.patreon.com/posts/35073683 “An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer – 2nd edition” by Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson: https://gimms.org.uk/2021/02/21/an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer/ Our episodes about “An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer”: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46352183 Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46865929 More on inflation: Episode 65 - Phil Armstrong: Understanding Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40672678 Episode 104 - John T Harvey: Inflation, Stagflation & Healing The Nation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52207835 Episode 123 - Warren Mosler: Understanding The Price Level And Inflation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59856379 Episode 128 - L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What's Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63776558 A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757 We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos Transcript for opening monologue: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66829263 Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66829431
An dëser Episod gett et - an aussergeweinlechen Ëmstenn - em d'Thema Europadag an d‘europäesch Unioun. Mir kucken eis d'Entstehungsgeschicht vun der EU aus der Perspektiv vun hieren Kisen un, analyseieren hier Legitimatioun an probeieren produktiv un Leisungen ze schaffen. Musik: Bilderbuch – Europa 22 Referenzen – Lies mol!: - Costas Lapavitsas, The Left Case against the EU - The Brexit Crisis, a Verso Report - Edward Said, Orientalism - Sternstunde Philosophie: Europa (Youtube, SRF) - Nicole Schöndorfer, Darf Sie Das - Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt, Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the SOAS University of London, joins us to discuss the Covid-driven economic crisis gripping the US and EU, their relationship to the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and how policy responses to the current crisis will shape our collective future. The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. Music by Sam Kyzivat and Breakmaster Cylinder Production by Andrew Schlegel, Jonas Heering and Emily Traynor Mayrand Communications by Hannah Tyler and Iris Thatcher Design by Sarah Diebboll https://cges.georgetown.edu/podcast Twitter and Instagram: @theeuropedesk If you would like a transcript of this episode, more information about the Center's events, or have any feedback, please email: theeuropedesk@georgetown.edu.
With a month until the budget, Matt Chorley asks a panel of economic experts if it is time to tighten our belts or splash the cash. Guests include Robert Chote, former head of the Budget Responsibility, Morgan Schondelmaier, from the free market think tank the Adam Smith Institute, and Costas Lapavitsas, an economist from SOAS University.Plus columnists Daniel Finkelstein and Tom McTague ask: does it matter if dissidents aren't perfect? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left Case Against the EU (Polity, 2018), he contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas's powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research during the last few years has focused on the Eurozone and the financialization of capitalism. He has published widely in the academic field and writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In January 2015 he was elected in the Greek Parliament with the incoming SYRIZA party, but left in August 2015 when the third bail-out of Greece was signed. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, Polity Press, 2018, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso, 2015, and Profiting Without Producing, Verso, 2013. Daniel Lucas is a student at the University of Groningen, studying European and International law. Please contact through daniellucas2001@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Panel: Prof. Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University); Prof. Socrates Petmezas (University of Crete); and Prof. Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) A special event to review the state of the art in the field of Ottoman economic development on the occasion of the publication of “Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia”, Costas Lapavitsas and Pinar Cakiroglu, I.B.Tauris, 2019. The event is organised jointly by the Department of Economics and the Turkish section of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at SOAS and will be followed by a wine reception, 19:00-20:00. Chaired by: Yorgos Dedes (SOAS)
Britain's left and right both face internal struggles over Brexit. The Labour Party ought to allow more internal debate for "Lexit," says Prof. Costas Lapavitsas.
Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to a party that, for a time, represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" - is that the right way to look at it? And what are the wider consequences of this defeat: is time up for this wave of "left populists"? Readings: Greece’s Long Road Ahead, Costas Lapavitsas, Jacobin Defeat and decomposition, Panagiotis Sotiris, Historical Materialism Syriza’s rise and fall, Stathis Kouvelakis, NLR New Democracy Against Democracy, Various (incl. Leo Panitch), Jacobin The Radical Left: The Time for its Re-founding, Costas Lapavitsas & Stathis Kouvelakis, Verso blog Book Review: The Populist Radical Left in Europe, Anton Jäger, LSE blog This episode was previously exclusive to patrons. To access all our content, please subscribe: patreon.com/BungaCast
NB For technical reasons we had to use a fall back recording. Costas Lapavitsas is one of the foremost left critics of the EU. He was elected as an member of the Greek parliament for Syriza in 2015 before defecting to Popular Unity in defiance of the government's concessions to the Troika later in the year. Since 1999 he has taught economics at SOAS, where he now holds a professorship. The event is chaired by Bristol Transformed's own Raven Hart. Raven works as a data analyst in tax, has lived in Athens and produced research on the economic effects of austerity in Greece brought on by the aftermath of the European Debt Crisis. He is currently in the process of pursuing a PhD examining the role of tax in reversing the effects of financializaton under Costas’ supervision.
Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to the party that for a time represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" - is that the right way to look at it? And what are the wider consequences of this defeat - is time up for this wave of "left populists"? Readings: Greece’s Long Road Ahead, Costas Lapavitsas, Jacobin Defeat and decomposition, Panagiotis Sotiris, Historical Materialism Syriza’s rise and fall, Stathis Kouvelakis, NLR New Democracy Against Democracy, Various (incl. Leo Panitch), Jacobin The Radical Left: The Time for its Re-founding, Costas Lapavitsas & Stathis Kouvelakis, Verso blog Book Review: The Populist Radical Left in Europe, Anton Jäger, LSE blog Subscribe for the full episode at Patreon.com/BungaCast
Air Date: 4/12/2019 Today we take a look at everything there is to know about Brexit, Lexit, Remain and Reform, the Irish question, The Troubles, the neoliberalism of the EU and the senses of local and national identity in an age of globalism Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Episode Sponsors: Madison-Reed.com+ Promo Code: Left Amazon USA| Amazon CA| Amazon UK| Clean Choice Energy Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content: Support our show on Patreon! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: What's Happening With Brexit? - NowThis - Air Date 3-29-19 Brexit Day was supposed to be today. So WTF happened?! Ch. 2: This Is Where I Leave EU, thinking about Brexit from a leftist perspective - Chapo Trap House - Air Date 3-15-19 Amber interviews economist and author Costas Lapavitsas about the European Union, how it works, its problems, how it relates to Brexit, and how we might think of it from a leftist perspective. Ch. 3: U.K. in Crisis Facing No Deal, Parliament Votes on Brexit After Rejecting May’s Plan for Third Time - Democracy Now - Air Date 4-1-19 We speak with professor Priya Gopal, a university lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She calls Britain's decision to leave the EU a “deeply neoliberal … free market, disaster-capitalist project.” Ch. 4: Understanding the mechanics and underhanded dealing of the Leave campaign - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 2-21-19 Brexit threatens Britain's economic and social order. Everywhere, populism is winning big. The question is why? Ch. 5: Ireland, North and South - The Inquiry - Air Date 12-5-18 Explaining the potential impacts of Brexit on the hard-won peace between Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and the country of Ireland Ch. 6: Irish Questions - Analysis - Air Date 2-25-19 Voters and politicians in Britain claim to be perplexed that economic and political relations between the UK and the Republic of Ireland seem to be decisive in determining the course of Brexit. They shouldn’t be, argues Edward Stourton. Ch. 7: Richard Seymour: A Brexit tour of British politics - This is hell - Air Date 2-12-19 Writer Richard Seymour surveys what remains of Labour under Brexit's combustible, nationalist unity project. Richard is the author of the essay "Brexit and the "white working class" posted at his Patreon page. Ch. 8: Lexit vs Remain and Reform - Weekly Economics Podcast - Air Date 1-14-19 Grace Blakeley and Laurie Macfarlane debate whether there still a progressive case for leaving the EU? Was there ever one? Or is our best chance to stay in the EU and reform it? Can it even be reformed? Ch. 9: Brexit: What the f**k is going on? - Jonathan Pie - Air Date 3-22-19 By taking back control the UK has shown that it's out of control. Ch. 10: Fear, identity and a sense of home in the face of immigration - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 2-21-19 Brexit threatens Britain's economic and social order. Everywhere, populism is winning big. The question is why? Ch. 11: Trump, Brexit, and Racial Grievance with Mehdi Hasan - Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes - Air Date 8-28-18 British journalist Mehdi Hasan talks about the role of racial grievances from the US to the UK FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 12: Final comments on how Scotland fits in to all of this MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr Derailed - The Depot Chrome and Wax - Ray Catcher Weathervane - CloudCover Cicle DR Valga - Cicle Kadde Contrarian - Sketchbook Cottonwoods - Feathers Lahaina - Cloud Harbor Lord Weasel - Molerider PolyCoat - The Cabinetmaker Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/AndroidApp in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunesand Stitcher!
Amber interviews economist and author Costas Lapavitsas about the European Union, how it works, its problems, how it relates to Brexit, and how we might think of it from a leftist perspective.
Jonathan Dimbleby presents topical debate from the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, Suffolk.
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) A crucial feature of financialisation is the extraordinary increase of financial profits in relation to non-financial and total profits. The reasons for this increase are not well understood. To tackle this issue this paper adopts a Marxist approach to financialisation as a distinct historical period in the development of mature capitalism. On this basis it builds a macroeconomic model with a non-financial and a financial sector which is also stock-flow consistent along the lines of Godley. The model shows that the ratio of financial to non-financial profits depends positively on the net interest margin and the non-interest income of banks, but negatively on the general rate of profit, the non-interest expenses of banks, and the ratio of the capital stock to interest-earning assets. The model is subsequently tested for the US economy showing that financial profits have varied mainly with respect to the net interest margin, while non-interest income has also played a significant role. The crisis of 2007-9 represents a turning point in this respect, ushering in a period of weaker financial profits. Costas Lapavitsas is Professor in Economics at the SOAS Department of Economics. Speakers: Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Gregor Semieniuk (SOAS) Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts
Costas Lapavitsas and Geoff Ingham, Louis Moreno, Anitra Nelson, Engelbert Stockhammer. Symposium and Launch of Marxist Monetary Theory by Costas Lapavitsas. "Marxist Monetary Theory", a collection of papers by Costas Lapavitsas, published by Brill, will be launched at SOAS on 18 January 2017. To mark the event there will be a panel debate with the title "Thinking about Money". Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas was among the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and devote his research to it. The collected volume ranges far and wide, including papers on markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. The participants in the panel debate are leading academics with expertise in the philosophical, economic and sociological aspects of money. The debate will be a rare opportunity to consider conflicting approaches to money in social science. The symposium is organised by the SOAS Department of Economics, in collaboration with the Department of Development Studies. Speaker(s): Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), Geoff Ingham (University of Cambridge), Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Louis Moreno (Goldsmiths Univeristy of London), Anitra Nelson (RMIT), Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University) Event Date: 18 January 2017 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
Costas Lapavitsas and Geoff Ingham, Louis Moreno, Anitra Nelson, Engelbert Stockhammer. Symposium and Launch of Marxist Monetary Theory by Costas Lapavitsas. "Marxist Monetary Theory", a collection of papers by Costas Lapavitsas, published by Brill, will be launched at SOAS on 18 January 2017. To mark the event there will be a panel debate with the title "Thinking about Money". Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas was among the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and devote his research to it. The collected volume ranges far and wide, including papers on markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. The participants in the panel debate are leading academics with expertise in the philosophical, economic and sociological aspects of money. The debate will be a rare opportunity to consider conflicting approaches to money in social science. The symposium is organised by the SOAS Department of Economics, in collaboration with the Department of Development Studies. Speaker(s): Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), Geoff Ingham (University of Cambridge), Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Louis Moreno (Goldsmiths Univeristy of London), Anitra Nelson (RMIT), Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University) Event Date: 18 January 2017 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
Costas Lapavitsas and Geoff Ingham, Louis Moreno, Anitra Nelson, Engelbert Stockhammer. Symposium and Launch of Marxist Monetary Theory by Costas Lapavitsas. "Marxist Monetary Theory", a collection of papers by Costas Lapavitsas, published by Brill, will be launched at SOAS on 18 January 2017. To mark the event there will be a panel debate with the title "Thinking about Money". Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas was among the first political economists to notice their ascendancy and devote his research to it. The collected volume ranges far and wide, including papers on markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit, even money as art. The participants in the panel debate are leading academics with expertise in the philosophical, economic and sociological aspects of money. The debate will be a rare opportunity to consider conflicting approaches to money in social science. The symposium is organised by the SOAS Department of Economics, in collaboration with the Department of Development Studies. Speaker(s): Antonio Andreoni (SOAS), Geoff Ingham (University of Cambridge), Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Louis Moreno (Goldsmiths Univeristy of London), Anitra Nelson (RMIT), Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University) Event Date: 18 January 2017 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
Greek voters may be about to plunge the European Union into a fully-fledged economic and political crisis. Opinion polls suggest the leftist, anti-austerity party Syriza is likely to emerge as the biggest party in Greece's late January election. If so the next Athens government may reject the terms of the bailout which is keeping the country afloat. And then what? Hardtalk speaks to Costas Lapavitsas, a London-based Greek economist who has been advising Syriza's leaders.(Photo: Greek economist Costas Lapavitsas)
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Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Annual Colloquium with Stathis Kouvelakis, King's College London, Political Theory and Costas Lapavitsas, University of London, Economics.
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