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Sindre Talleraas Holen, Head of M&A at Visma In Part 2 of this global M&A masterclass, Sindre Holen pulls back the curtain on Visma's deal execution strategy, valuation methodology, and post-close philosophy. Visma has quietly become one of the most disciplined and prolific acquirers in Europe and LATAM. How? Through extreme clarity on what they buy, why they buy it, and how they operate post-close. Sindre and Kison dig into the nuance of buying software companies in different geographies, how Visma thinks about valuation (hint: rule of 40—and sometimes 50—matters), and why the company chooses to “onboard” rather than “integrate.” This episode is a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how to structure deals, manage cultural differences, and stay true to a scalable M&A playbook. Things you will learn: How Visma sets valuation ranges across different growth brackets and geographies Rule of 40 vs. Rule of 50 and how it impacts multiples Why Visma prefers local advisors over centralized consultants in new markets Inside Visma's onboarding vs. integration philosophy _______________ What is the Buyer-Led M&A™ Virtual Summit Only two weeks left to register! This half-day event brings together corporate development leaders and M&A experts to explore Buyer-Led M&A™, showing how you can take control of every stage of the deal. Register Now: DealRoom.net/Summit ________ Learn why you Shouldn't use Excel for Dilligence If you're bouncing between Excel trackers, email threads, shared drives, and separate VDR, you're not alone-but you are wasting time. Join us for 20 minutes of practical ways to save hours, stay on track, and move deals forward faster. Join us live and see the difference. Register Now ________ Bookmarks [00:00:00] – Recap and Starting Part 2: Risk Awareness in Global M&A [00:01:30] – Analysis Paralysis: Knowing When to Say Yes or No [00:04:30] – Visma's Scalable Diligence Function & Internal Capabilities [00:06:00] – Tapping Freelancers, Ex-Corp Dev Talent for First-Time Deals [00:07:30] – The Strategic Spectrum: PE Mindset vs. Strategic Buyer [00:09:00] – Visma's “Onboarding,” Not “Integration” Philosophy [00:11:00] – Building Long-Term Founder Relationships Post-Close [00:13:00] – Standardization: Reporting, Tech, and Cybersecurity Rigor [00:14:30] – The Rule of 40... or 50? And Why It Matters [00:20:00] – Earnouts: Bridging Price Expectations Through Growth [00:28:30] – Closing Over 90% of LOIs: Visma's High Deal Certainty [00:30:00] – What to Do Before Entering a New Geography [00:33:30] – Leveraging Local Advisors, Bankers & Cultural Guides [00:39:30] – Visma's Expansion Into Latin America via Accidental Entry [00:41:00] – Why LATAM is Surprisingly Ahead in SaaS & Regulation [00:43:00] – The Role of Humility and Trust in Global Expansion [00:46:30] – Trends in SaaS M&A: Consolidators, Rollups & Capital Influx [00:49:00] – Craziest M&A Deal Toy: A Stuffed Eagle
Hügo Krüger discusses Washington's attack on South Africa which also features the weaponization of South Africa's own diaspora against it, namely the PayPal Mafia (e.g. Musk, Sacks, Thiel). The contention centers around foreign policy (e.g. Israel) and land reforms. He examines the strange history of the PayPal Mafia in South Africa and provides an update on the latest in energy news. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Hügo Krüger: Trump & PayPal Mafia's Attack on South Africa #524 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Substack https://hkrugertjie.substack.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@hugo_kruger X https://x.com/hkrugertjie About Hügo Krüger Hügo Krüger is a Structural/Nuclear Engineer with working experience in a variety of energy related projects ranging from nuclear, oil and gas industry to renewable energy. Hügo is also a writer and YouTube podcaster, commenting and interviewing guests on a variety of topics relating to Engineering, Energy, Climate, Propaganda, and Geopolitical Matters. His writing has appeared on a variety of outlets including Biznews, Spiked, Rapport, Rational Standard, Quillette and New Geography. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
Christian Parenti is an investigative journalist, academic, and author whose recent articles have appeared in Compact Mag and others. We discuss Kash Patel as the potential FBI Director, President Jimmy Carter's legacy and other news. Parenti is Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on: American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder, (Verso, 2020); Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, (Nation Books, 2011); The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, (The New Press, 2004); The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror, (Basic Books, 2003); and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and other publications. Follow us at: @JackmanRadio Become a Patron: www.patreon.com/JackmanRadio For $ tips if you enjoy our work: Venmo Eric: SenatorJackman86 Venmo Mike: MikeJackman1986
Capital Group portfolio manager Rob Lovelace and investment director David Polak discuss "The New Geography of Investing," an approach to evaluating companies based on where they do business rather than where they are headquartered. Roughly a decade after Capital highlighted this concept in a white paper, is it still new? Is it still relevant to the global equity markets? And how will it fare in a world where globalization appears to be in retreat? #CapGroupGlobal For full disclosures go to capitalgroup.com/global-disclosures For our latest insights, practice management ideas and more, subscribe to Capital Ideas at getcapitalideas.com. If you're based outside of the U.S., visit capitalgroup.com for Capital Group insights. Watch our latest podcast, Conversations with Mike Gitlin, on YouTube: https://bit.ly/CG-Gitlin-playlist This content is published by Capital Client Group, Inc. U.K. investors can view a glossary of technical terms here: https://bit.ly/49rdcFq To stay informed, follow us LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/42uSYbm YouTube: https://bit.ly/4dFTE1B Follow Mike Gitlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegitlin/ About Capital Group Capital Group was established in 1931 in Los Angeles, California, with the mission to improve people's lives through successful investing. With our clients at the core of everything we do, we offer carefully researched products and services to help them achieve their financial goals. Learn more: capitalgroup.com Join us: capitalgroup.com/about-us/careers.html Copyright ©2024 Capital Group
In this episode we speak with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, about her book Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. In addition to Prison Capital, she is the co-editor of The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Books 2024). Her research, writing, and teaching is grounded in over 15 years of abolitionist organizing and political education facilitation in New Orleans and beyond. Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This book is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. In this discussion we talk about the dynamics that contributed to that history. It's a fascinating conversation that gets into Louisiana's shifting political economy, the policing of New Orleans, the importance of sheriff power in Louisiana, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and various forms of anti-carceral organizing from the streets of New Olreans to Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola. Massive Bookshop has Prison Capital if people are interested in picking up a copy and delving more deeply into this conversation, as I mentioned a couple times during the episode there is a lot of really interesting analysis in the book that we didn't have time to adequately address in this conversation. I would be remiss if I didn't say we're releasing this conversation during Black August, find some local or online political education about that, write to political prisoners, get involved in their campaigns. If you want to support our work please consider contributing a $1 a month or more to our patreon at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. We do have a Trinity of Fundamentals study group that starts this coming week and you can find details about that on our patreon as well. Links: Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana. The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration Trinity of Fundamentals study group
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton, co-editors of the collection The Jail is Everywhere, join me in this interview to discuss the “quiet jail boom” in numerous counties across the United States. They examine how the county jail has become the preeminent site of the adaptive, expansive, and shapeshifting carceral state, as well as the local and nationwide struggles to end it. The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration is edited by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Jack Norton, and Judah Schept, with contributions by, and interviews with, numerous anti-jail organizers across the United States. It was published through Verso Books. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an Assistant Professor of Geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana. Jack Norton is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University, and was a senior research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice. He conducted research for the In Our Backyards initiative and investigated how counties across the United States use their local jails. Episode Notes: - Learn more about The Jail is Everywhere and purchase a copy from Verso Books or Bookshop: https://bit.ly/49YrCMS / https://bit.ly/4dsnTuf - Read an excerpt from the book at The Baffler: https://bit.ly/4aT8VeU - Music produced by Epik The Dawn: https://epikbeats.net WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast SUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior
Hügo Krüger discusses how South Africa and the ANC have stepped on the toes of Washington and the Israeli lobby and may see intervention in the next elections. Allegations have been made that South Africa is receiving financing from Iran and there are indications that Western actors are interested in certain South African resources. He also comments on the wider brewing war in the Middle East, BRICS, energy, and whether technocracy will succeed. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Hügo Krüger: Washington Regime Change in South Africa? #420 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://hkrugertjie.substack.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@hugo_kruger Twitter https://twitter.com/hkrugertjie Propaganda, External Actors, and the South African Elections https://propagandainfocus.com/propaganda-external-actors-and-the-south-african-elections About Hügo Krüger Hügo Krüger is a Structural/Nuclear Engineer with working experience in a variety of energy related projects ranging from nuclear, oil and gas industry to renewable energy. Hügo is also a writer and YouTube podcaster, commenting and interviewing guests on a variety of topics relating to Engineering, Energy, Climate, Propaganda, and Geopolitical Matters. His writing has appeared on a variety of outlets including Biznews, Spiked, Rapport, Rational Standard, Quillette and New Geography. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
On today's show we're in conversation with the editors of a book that explores county jails as a key in the broader abolitionist movement, both in building analysis and in building our fight. Jails are now the fastest-growing sector of the US carceral state. As jails grow, they transform the areas around them. If jails are everywhere, resistance is too. The book is called The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration, and our guests are editors Jack Norton and Judah Schept. Follow Judah Schept on Twitter: https://twitter.com/judahschept Follow Jack Norton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcknorton — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post County Jails in the Movement for Abolition w/ Jack Norton & Judah Schept appeared first on KPFA.
Jack Norton and Judah Schept join This Is Hell! to discuss their forthcoming volume, co-authored with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration" available February 14th from Verso. After the interview, Sebastian Wuepper returns with an all-new The Past Inside the Present. Check out their book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3039-the-jail-is-everywhere Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell
About the Talk In this episode of the podcast, Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Adam Dixon on the contemporary relevance of the Scottish philosopher and political economist Adam Smith. The Guest Adam D. Dixon holds the Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism at Adam Smith's Panmure House, the last and final home of moral philosopher and father of economics Adam Smith. Professor Dixon is recognized as a world-leading scholar on the political economy of sovereign wealth funds, theories of state capitalism, and the intersection of markets and the state in the sustainability transition. His books include The Specter of State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024), Sovereign Wealth Funds: Between the State and Markets (Agenda, 2022), The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World (Palgrave 2022), The New Frontier Investors: How Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Endowments are Changing the Business of Investment Management and Long-Term Investing (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), The New Geography of Capitalism: Firms, Finance, and Society (Oxford University Press 2014) Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power (Princeton University Press, 2013), and Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (Oxford University Press, 2009). Trained as an economic geographer and political economist in the United States, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, Adam brings an interdisciplinary perspective to this work. Previously, Adam worked at the University of Bristol and Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where he led a large European Research Council project on sovereign wealth funds. He holds a D.Phil. in economic geography from the University of Oxford, a Diplôme (Master) de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a BA in international affairs and Spanish literature from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Hello friends! I hope you had a great Independence Day! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Brian Beken is my guest for episode 1291! After 15 years of playing with bands like Robert Earl Keen, South Austin Jug Band, and MilkDrive, Brian has emerged with his brilliant, debut solo album, New Geography which he recorded and performed on his own during 2020 with mixing help from Joe Humel, is available now wherever you stream or download music. Go to brianbeken.com for all of your Brian Beken needs. We have a great conversation about getting started on violin at age 8 then quickly switching to fiddle, playing in bands as a kid, touring the U.S. and Europe with The South Austin Jug Band, making 4 albums with prog-bluegrass band, MilkDrive, his 8 years playing with Robert Earl Keen and much more. I had a great time getting to know Brian. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down! Get tix to How Did I Get Here? Presents Leslie Sisson, Johnny Goudie and Aaron Sinclair at Soundspace at Captain Quackenbush's on July 21st HERE Get the best, full-spectrum CBD products from True Hemp Science and enter code HDIGH for a special offer from How Did I Get Here? If you feel so inclined. Venmo: www.venmo.com/John-Goudie-1 Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie
The United States is the world's largest incarcerator. Many of the prisons built since the 1990s are in rural places, particularly in Central Appalachia as an economic development strategy to replace the coal industry. The prison economy of Central Appalachia figures strongly into the work of both our guests, multimedia artist and organizer Sylvia Ryerson and professor and author Judah Schept. Ryerson is a multimedia artist, organizer and PhD candidate in American Studies at Yale University. For over a decade, her work rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism and art, has probed the overlapping crises of racialized mass incarceration, rural economic abandonment, and environmental destruction. She is also the director of a new documentary Calls from Home, which documents WMMT.FM's longstanding radio show that sends familial messages of love over public airwaves to reach people incarcerated in Central Appalachia. Schept is a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. His most recent book is Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. He has been active with numerous organizations and campaigns centered on decarceration, criminalization and abolition. About our guests Sylvia Ryerson is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale University, with a Master's concentration in the public humanities. Prior to graduate school she worked as an independent radio producer, and at the Appalshop media arts and education center in Whitesburg, Kentucky. There she served as a reporter and the director of public affairs programming, and co-directed Appalshop/WMMT-FM's Hip Hop from the Hilltop & Calls from Home radio show, a nationally recognized weekly radio program broadcasting music and toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated, and Making Connections News, a multimedia community storytelling project documenting efforts for a just transition from coal extraction. Her research questions build from this work, and are rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and art. Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (New York University Press, 2022) and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion (New York University Press, 2015. He is co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Books, 2024). He holds a PhD from Indiana University and a BA from Vassar College. https://youtu.be/CPlHM3aIsXQ Everywhere Radio spotlight the good, scrappy and joyful ways rural people and their allies are building a more inclusive nation. Everywhere Radio is a production of the Rural Assembly. Get the Rural Assembly in your inbox: https://www.ruralassembly.org/newsletters
SHOP BPN SUPPS Tune into the 7th Question Stretch as we take a stroll down memory lane and relive the best of the 2000s! See how you stacked up against the Chloee Hardness Test. Whether you were a parent or a kid during the decade you're bound to learn something from this week's episode! Seth and Chloee once again host this week's Travelin' Trivia Episode. To keep up with their latest travels, follow @sethmalcolmmedia on Instagram. Each question and answer provided on Travelin' Trivia is researched and referenced from reputable sources throughout the industry. That is not to say mistakes aren't made. If you notice an error while listening, please bring it to their attention and the correction will be provided in a coming episode! Listener Feedback Form (scroll to the bottom of the home page) To learn more about each topic discussed in this week's Travelin' Trivia episode visit the references below. Question 1: The Year 2000 is coming to an end, pop music had really hit its stride with... Question 2: In many ways, the 2000s were a golden era in sports... Question 3: This decade was an immense era of discovery... Question 4: Although first released in 1998, this sugary snack food had its hay day during the... Question 5: It's time to revisit our wacky laws segment. I'll list off 4 wild and wacky laws... Question 6: At the end of the decade, the Hollywood Reporter looked back on 10 years worth of... Question 7: According to an article by New Geography.com, the end of the 2000s brought an... Question 8: Time to get your imagination caps on! In 2002, you're on a trip with your family in... Question 9: The 2000s was a golden age of the material society... Question 10: True or False. According to Data provided by the National Park Service... Bonus Question: A lot happened in the 3,653 days that made up the 2000s... Join us next week for Texas Trivia! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/seth-malcolm7/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-malcolm7/support
Brian interviews Steve Lafleur. Steve holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography. His past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. We'll talk about a recent column he wrote about Bill 23 and our Housing Affordability Crisis in the GTA. We'll discuss zoning, development fees, city red tape and how they are not helping the housing crisis.
Over more than a decade, a series of economic crises have led to major shifts in the labour markets – creating new types of jobs and destroying existing ones. Researchers are examining the extent of these changes in employment structures, ranging from the decline in mid-paid jobs to the upgrading in high-paid, high-skilled jobs. How are these changes affecting different regions or economies? And which emerging sectors show the most promise for achieving employment growth in developed economies, as well as sustainable development, employment creation and poverty alleviation in less developed economies? In this episode, Sergio Torrejón Perez, economic and policy analyst in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and coordinator of the joint ILO-JRC project “Global shifts in the employment structure”, and John Hurley, Senior Research Manager, Employment Unit, Eurofound, discuss these trends, and their impact on the future of work.
“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear if the economy in which that class struggle is happening isn't growing and isn't producing surplus.” Christian Parenti Professor of Political Economy and Author of Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder Christian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY (City University of New York). His books include “Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder" (Verso 2020), "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" (2011); "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" (2004); "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror" (2002); and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis" (2000/second edition 2008). As a journalist he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications. Learn more at: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/christian-parenti. About Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism--In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton—sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers—was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again. He was a contradictory mix: a tough soldier, austere workaholic, exacting bureaucrat, sexual libertine, glory-obsessed romantic with suicidal tendencies—and pioneer of industrialisation. As Parenti argues, we have yet to fully appreciate Hamilton as the primary architect of American capitalism and the developmental state. In exploring his life and work, Parenti rediscovers this gadfly as a pathbreaking political thinker and institution builder. In this vivid portrait, Hamilton emerges as a singularly important historical figure: a thinker and politico who laid the foundation for America's ascent to global supremacy and mass industrialization—for better or worse. You can buy Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder from your favorite bookseller. About The Political Economy Project The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans on a common purpose to work together and create a new cultural and economic renaissance based on the harmony of interests of the human spirit. The Political Economy Project is an EML Publishing brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class everywhere. Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PolEconProject. #PoliticalEconomyProject #LaborRadioPod #PoliticalEconomy
Brian interviews Steve Lafleur. Steve is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. We discuss municipal politics, zoning, city regulations and how they are causing the housing crisis not helping. Steve holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography. His past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. His current focus is on economic competitiveness of jurisdictions in the Prairie provinces. His writing has appeared in every major national and regional Canadian newspaper and his work has been cited by many sources including the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Reason Foundation.
One of the biggest stories in international relations this week erupted when Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. For a high-ranking American to visit the disputed country, unrecognized by the United Nations because of its conflict with China, was controversial—perhaps almost as much as when 27-year-old web developer Abe Train decided to include Taiwan in his web game, Globle. Okay, so maybe the two aren't that comparable. But hundreds of thousands of people play Globle every day, putting real stress on Train to handle geopolitical issues from his apartment in downtown Toronto. Globle, which launched in January 2022, is one of many mimics of Wordle, the popular online word game bought by the New York Times for $1 million. Globle's spin is geography: players guess a country, and are informed by a colour code whether the country of the day is near or far. Players then keep guessing until they find the nation in question. Train joins today to explain what drove him to quit his day job and focus on innovative web design full-time, and how he handles hate mail over international border definitions, such as Taiwan—or the Middle East. What we talked about: Play Globle at globle-game.com Play Abe Train's new game at plurality.fun Read about the 2021 hate crime stats at thecjn.ca Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Production assistance by Gabrielle Nadler and YuZhu Mou. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To learn how to support the show by subscribing to this podcast, please watch this video.
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of inquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. Dr Archie Davies is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of inquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. Dr Archie Davies is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of inquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. Dr Archie Davies is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of inquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. Dr Archie Davies is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography
With a leaked decision showing that the Supreme Court will soon gut abortion rights, Abby spoke with Jennifer Welch, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, about the mechanics of getting an abortion in a post-Roe world, how abortion providers in Illinois are already preparing for a surge of pregnant people from other states, and the constitutional rights SCOTUS might come after next.
جغرافیای جدید نوآوری در جهان وقتی به تاریخ نگاه میکنیم انقلابهای صنعتی متعدد جغرافیای نوآوری و جغرافیای خلق ثروت و رفاه را تغییر داده است. در حال حاضر که در جریان انقلاب صنعتی چهارم هستیم، به تدریج جغرافیای نوآوری در حال تغییر بوده و از سیلیکونولی در آمریکا به کشورهای دیگر مانند هند و برزیل و حتی نیجریه گسترده شده است. در واقع نوآوری مسیر جهانی شدن را طی میکند. اکونومیست ۱۵ آوریل در همین رابطه مقالهای در صفحههای ۵۹-۶۱ منتشر کرده با عنوان «New Geography of Innovation» که در آن ابعاد جغرافیای جدید نوآوری جهان رو نشان میدهد. در این گفتار از فصل سوم فارکست هفتگی با دکتر حسین نیلی در همین رابطه گفتگوکردیم. میزبان: محمد امین نادریان مدیر هنری: علی نقیبی تدوین: محمد اسماعیل نوایی گرافیک: نعیمه وجدانی فخر بیتا امینپور در شبکههای اجتماعی با فارکست همراه شوید. https://zil.ink/daneshgoo
Brian interviews Steve Lafleur. Steve is is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. We talked about a recent column he wrote “To solve Toronto's housing crisis, we must end restrictive single-family zoning policies”. We discuss zoning, city regulations and how they are causing the housing crisis not helping. Steve holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography.
Hello Interactors,Most people’s awareness of the economy starts with three letters: GDP. It seems every news report about the health of any nation starts with their GDP. And there is only one direction it can go for anyone to be satisfied and that is up. Even though we all know that as those numbers go up the health of our environment goes down. How did we get here? As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…BEN AND ARIESIn 1817, German poet, playwright, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Every school of thought is like a man who has talked to himself for a hundred years and is delighted with his own mind, however stupid it may be.” Goethe himself fell victim to this, but it’s unlikely he considered his ideas stupid. No member of any school of dogma does. He considered himself a cut above the rest; a genius in fact. At least as defined by his more famous German peer, philosopher Immanuel Kant. Goethe was a naturalist and believed his genius was his ability to translate his knowledge of the natural world into manmade civic matters – like economics. He was equally adept at using words like “budget, balance, economy, law and order” in describing the workings of the German government as he was describing his gardens. Or mines. Goethe was put in charge of managing area parks, mines, and forests which gave him ample opportunities to marry elements of botany and geology with economics. He was following in the footsteps of the French economic school of thought from the mid-1700s, The Physiocrats. They too believed in the order of natural law. They thought “the only choice humans had was either to structure their polity, economy and society in conformity with the ordre naturel or to go against it.” Talk about being dogmatic. There were some big names in this school of thought; including Benjamin Franklin. He sided with the Physiocrats arguing the only real productive contributions to a nation’s economy was naturally – through land ownership and farming. It’s a school of thought that propelled Thomas Jefferson, also a land loving naturalist, to push for land grabs across the country for the purpose of farming and land taxation. It’s also what separated the industrial mercantilists of the America’s North and the agrarian agriculturalists of the South which eventually led to a civil war. Colonialization, at its heart, was about land acquisition for agriculture, industry, transportation, international trade, and real estate. It was also about ethnic, racial, and gendered economies, and eventually the development of urban form. It set out to dominate the interaction of people and place. It was also the emergence of the field of economic geography. But long before the Enlightenment and colonization, in 4th century BC, the State of Qin in western China developed timber maps that included locations and distance measures to the sites. These are some of the oldest economic maps in the world. And then along came the Greek philosopher Strabo. He published a book called Geographica just before his death in 24 AD. It was found and reprinted in Latin in 1469 and describes the interactions of people and places from around the various parts of the world Strabo visited, including their economies. This reprinted work proved more influential to the burgeoning Enlightenment thinkers of 15th century, than Strabo’s first century contemporaries. Either way, economic geography took hold in Europe throughout the Enlightenment and into the 19th century as Goethe was writing erotic plays, listening to Beethoven live, and dabbling in economics between trips to the garden. NEW-MATH MEETS HU-MANStrabo’s work would have been picked up by another German, Alfred Weber – the brother to one of the founders of modern-day sociology, Max Weber, who believed capitalism came to exist through the protestant work ethic. Max ended up winning the ‘who will be most famous’ yearbook prize, but Alfred likely would have been more popular at the time. He made a name for himself as an economist developing some of the first theories on industrial location in 1929. He wanted to know why and how industries, cities, and farms determine where to locate. So, he developed analytical and interpretive methods to do so. Citing agglomerations, a collection of contiguous cities, industries, and labor pools, Weber was likely influenced by one of the most prominent British economists of the time, Alfred Marshall. He authored the 1890 book, Principles in Economics, and was the founder of yet another economic school of thought – The Cambridge school of neoclassical economics. We’ll learn more about Alfred later. Weber and Marshall were also influential outside of Europe. Weber’s work made its way to North America by way of a young mathematician named Walter Isard in the 1940s. Isard was a Quaker and thus a conscientious objector during World War II. His civil service was then satisfied as an attendant in a mental hospital. He had recently earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago where he was inspired by Weber. He spent his time at the hospital translating Weber’s work from German into English. He went on to teach regional science at MIT, started the first doctoral program in regional science at the University of Pennsylvania, and rounded out his career at Cornell in 1979. He died in 2010 as one of the most influential quantitative geographers in the field. But while Isard was still a young boy, another strand in economic geography had already been started in America; but from a humanist standpoint. Geographer and geologist, Wallace Atwood, also a University of Chicago graduate, had published a book in 1920 called Teaching the New Geography. It was targeted at elementary school teachers and encouraged a more progressive method of teaching geography to young people that avoided rote memorization of place names. Page one states that Atwood believes, “the study of geography in the elementary-school stage should do more than…provide geographical facts – it should give them a real understanding of…a definite power of interpreting their effect on human life.” He goes on to state, “Fortunately, we have now learned to teach the facts of place, political, physical, economic, and commercial geography in association with the more vital, more interesting, and more thought-provoking topics of human geography. In other words, we have come at last to focus the study on people, not things.” Atwood became the founding editor of the journal of Economic Geography out of Clark University in 1925 and eventually became the school’s president. The journal continues today to “redefine and reinvigorate the intersection between economics and geography” and is the discipline’s leading academic journal. HEAD AND TAILSThese two schools of thought and approach, technical and naturalist, were both indicators and influencers of the larger field of economics and politics. But they were also two sides of the same coin. On one side, there was a top-down, mathematical interpretation and explanation for what was occurring spatially as goods and people moved through space and time. This approach to economics emerged out of the work of Weber, Isard, and others in Europe and North America who are fondly referred to as the ‘space cadets’. There work complemented another emerging field in economics called econometrics – the application of statistics to economic relationships. On the other side of the coin were the earthy-crunchy, naturalists. The roots of the French Physiocrats grew into Germany creating sprouts of ideas tended to by people like Goethe. Seeds then spread to America and were planted by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Their land rights and agricultural economic beliefs blossomed into a gridded patchwork of townships, farms, cities, roads, and waterways that stretched across a continent. Colonial settlers toiled and tilled yielding fruits of labor in the form of property taxes and crop revenue. The funds of which built a military that protected industrialists seeking access to sacred Indigenous land to lay tracks for trains and mountains for mines. Cities grew across the oceans connecting the northern hemisphere with diverse populations of people cross-fertilizing ideas, yielding new seeds of inventions and innovation, that continued to spread around the world through interconnected vines of nutrient rich endeavors. All of which were extracting natural resources and exploiting human labor at rates never seen in the history of the world. By the 1900s the industrial age had lined the pockets of the economic elite, coal fired steam stoked success, but also paired pollutants to particles that penetrated the lungs of those less lucky. Trees were toppled, canyons collapsed, and sand stripped of their sediment. It was enough to prompt the Republican naturalist President Teddy Roosevelt to regulate railroads and conserve natural resources; an attempt to give Americans and the environment a “square deal”. His actions encouraged people like Wallace Atwood to pause and grow concerned. Atwood hoped to inspire a generation by asking children of the 1920s to be thoughtful about the power people have over interactions between physical geography, politics, place, and the effect they have on human life. Imagine where we’d be today if Atwood’s books and words actually took hold. I don’t know about you, but my primary geography education was still pretty much about memorizing Anglo-American names of cities and states around the world. This coin of economics offers mathematical quantitative spatial and econometric measures that include indicators of success for world-wide economies, on one side, and the other a naturalist-inspired human-environmental articulation of the potential positive and deleterious effects on physical geography and life. The measures of one side of the coin are even inspired by words of the other, like ‘health’ and ‘growth’. But the two sides suffer from a perverse cycle of codependency that lingers to this day. For example, we live in a society that measures, rewards, and celebrates how increased sales of automobiles contributes to the ‘growth’ of an economy knowing full well their presence is destroying the ‘health’ of the environment and its inhabitants. As gas prices plummet, economies grow – and so does the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Higher wages mean more consumerism and economies grow; and so does the size of toxic landfills and islands of plastic in the ocean. More cars on the road yield more accidents and more injuries and deaths. But they also yield economic growth in the insurance, auto, and healthcare industries as insurance, repair, and medical bills pile high. Economic indicators that rise, also measure our demise. We need no better proof that humans do not act logically nor rationally. THE AIMS AND PAINS OF KEYNESBut that would have been a tough argument to make in the late 19th and early 20th century. Most mainstream economists today would still argue. Arguments that stem from the principles of the preeminent 20th century British economist, John Maynard Keynes. Remember Alfred Marshall, the father of the Cambridge school of neoclassical economics? Keynes was a family friend and protégé of Marshall’s and expanded on his ideas, attitudes, and beliefs. One of which was the notion that people’s subjectivity in decision making plays a small role. In his 1921 Treatise on Probability Keynes wrote that when we are faced with a decision, we weigh the facts based on the knowledge we have. The decision that follows is “fixed objectively, and is independent of our opinion.” A probable choice “is not probable” just because we think it is. Some mythical natural law has determined it. I don’t know about you, but despite the knowledge I possess about the negative effects of sugar, it’s probable that I’ll have dessert because in the opinion of my sugar craving brain, I deserve it. And while I know the ocean is full of plastic, it is probable that I will continue to buy plastic products because, in my opinion, I think I want that product. But who am I to judge an Eton grad and one of the most influential people in the history of economics? He must be right. Right? In my opinion, not really. Keynes’ biggest contribution to economics, and the world we live in today, came in his 1936 book, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Here he outlined how an economy could be a nationwide entity bounded by certain governmental policies. These policies act as levers, to use a industrial metaphor, that control prices, interest rates, and even consumer demand – consumers who are governed by natural laws of objective logic uniformly identical to any other human. By positioning humans as yet another cog in a machine, economists could more easily substitute human behavior into their mathematical models. While some, like Cambridge Philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, disagreed with Keynes, and developed alternative mathematics to demonstrate it, Keynes beliefs survived. In large part because should each individual act on their own accord, subjectively, it would be seemingly impossible to mathematically model the outcome. And where’s the fun in that? Economists across Europe and North America agreed. By the end of World War II, Keynesian economics dominated economic scholarship and practice. It’s the model we have today and can be characterized in these four economic processes: Economies are external to our lives. One of the most efficient ways to trick people into believing this fallacy is to put the word ‘the’ in front of Economy. The mechanical metaphors also help to position economic processes as something external to our lives; just like machines. Economies operate under their own internal logical and objective rules. Entire cultures and societies may come and go, but economies are unaffected. Political parties come and go, but economies remain omnipresent. Diverse societies and religions may rise and fall throughout space and time, but economies remain constant and monotheistic. Economies operate on a national scale. The mathematical techniques and apparatus surrounding the analysis and reporting of economies represent the success or failure of an entire nation. It was as early as the 1940s that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) became the primary indicator of a nation’s economic health. These measures allowed for inter-national comparisons and worldwide economic systems like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Economies must be operated and managed through governmental intervention. This is the key to perpetual economic growth. Governments not only can make it possible but it is their duty to do so. Politicians latched on to this idea quickly, which is why Republicans and corporations stacked collegiate economic departments with Keynesian thinkers and funded their research. It’s been 100 years since Keynes published his economic treatise. That’s ten decades of Keynesian economists convincing each other their school of thought is right by pointing to perpetually climbing GDP numbers while ignoring the climbing curve of carbon dioxide concentration. The words of Goethe still ring true: “Every school of thought is like a man who has talked to himself for a hundred years and is delighted with his own mind, however stupid it may be.” It’s not hard to look around to see the students of this school of economics have failed. Our social foundations have been rocked. Our food, water, health, energy, education, social networks, income, work, housing, gender equality, peace and justice, social equity, and political voice are all suffering. And all that surrounds us too: climate change, ozone depletion, air pollution, biodiversity loss, freshwater withdrawals, chemical and soil pollution, and ocean acidification are pushed to their limits. But here’s what gives me hope. If it took just 80 years to dig this hole we’re in, I’m confident we can find our way out in less time than that. I’ve painted a narrow and bleak picture of mainstream economics, but know there are many economists around the world with alternative theories and practices. I’ll be exploring some in future posts. But the Keynesian school is what I want to replace. So here are some things to embrace. My school says: economies are embedded in the interactions of people and place. Economies emerge as people converge in a perpetual swirling of reactions. Social foundations and friendly relations are what make the economic milieu. But without clean air and water too, any economy is doomed. So embrace the patterns as complexities emerge among people and place interactions. References:Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd Edition. Neil M. Coe, Philip F. Kelly, Henry W. C. Yeung.Goethe's Economy of Nature and the Nature of His Economy. Myles W. Jackson. University of Cambridge. 1992.The History of Economic Thought. Gonçalo L. Fonseca. Institute for New Economic Thinking. Subscribe at interplace.io
Eyes S1E15 (13 Jul 94) vs. Profit & Loss S2E18 (20 Mar 94)-Bob misspoke & references the great Hong Kong film trilogy Infernal Affairs (2002-3) remade into Marty Scorsese's The Departed (2006)-There have been 236 Friends episodes (1994-2004) & 154 It's always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-) episodes so far. Bob stupidly misremembers Always Sunny episode title formats-Matt dubs Jeffrey Combs the Stan Lee of tv sf-Matt & Bob long for a rematch between The Rock & 7 of 9 in Picard S2-Bob hates on Star Trek & Babylon 5 prequel novels, Matt hates on Arthurian parallels-Pavlovian conditioning is not to be mistaken with Pavel Chekov-Bob's favorite book on climate change is Christian Parenti Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change & the New Geography of Violence (2011)-The Time for My Stories (2021) podcast did an interesting episode on Dallas (1978-91)-Ivanova has a dream with a Twin Peaks vibe
Brian Crombie discusses the housing crisis in Canada with Steve Lafleur, Senior Policy Analyst with the Fraser Institute. We talk about how municipal governments have failed to approve enough density, how Provinces need to plan transit along with development, how the time to approval just increases costs and makes housing more unaffordable, how government regulation makes it impossible to actually build the types of communities people love to live in and we worry about how we are going to house all the growth that is coming to the GTA and other major cities in Canada.Steve Lafleur is Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B.A. from Laurentian University where he studied Political Science and Economics. He was previously a Senior Policy Analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, and is a Contributing Editor to New Geography. His past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. His current focus is on economic competitiveness of jurisdictions in the Prairie provinces. His writing has appeared in every major national and regional Canadian newspaper and his work has been cited by many sources including the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Reason Foundation.
Episode 31: 18+ NSFW .... Mindgames excerpt containing Sex Slaves, Anal sex, and Intimacy, a fictional reading. Mindgames is a novel by Jasmine Gold.Book Blurb:In this erotic romance set in a dystopian future, healer Gabriel's attempt to convince sex slave Mariah to trust him goes too far, endangering his life, his freedom, and his sanity. Mariah can save him from the despair that envelopes him only if she can find the strength to trust herself. Gabriel, on a mission of mercy, is horrified by what he finds when he arrives in Riviera, a land far from his home. So-called “humans,” bored and decadent, amuse themselves with the senseless torture of their naked sex slaves. Yet Gabriel finds unexpected friends. An artist named Animal, who notices everything except Rose, his slavegirl. And Mariah, a slave foisted on Gabriel when he unwittingly prevents her from escaping. Mariah knows that Master Gabriel's talk of a different way of life, in which slavery does not exist, is merely the latest and cruelest of the mindgames that humans have used her whole life to toy with her. She must play along, but actually believing in it would bring disaster to her and to everyone she cares about. Mindgames is about love, and friendship, and the potential for redemption. It is about how one person can change the world, or be destroyed by it. Master Animal is a “pansy,” a master who does not torture his slaves. This makes him somewhat of an outcast, as does the fact that he is an artist who would rather paint than socialize. To the extent that he thinks about his slavegirl Rose he is fond of her, but mostly he does not notice her. Rose presents herself to the world as a “rag,” a slave without much spirit, but still waters run deep. She appreciates that Master Animal is kind to her, but more than anything she loves the art that he creates. Excerpt Introduction:In this excerpt, from a chapter called “A New Geography,” their relationship is beginning to deepen. The night before this chapter opens, Rose came home with bruises on her breasts and whipmarks on her butt. She explained that she was punished because she fought back when other masters, or "humans," anally raped her (the excerpt is not a rape scene). The other characters can't understand why she struggled against an occurrence that is commonplace in this society. Rose said that she just doesn't like buttfucking. Gabriel gave her some medicine to help her relax, and she fell asleep early. Connect with Jasmine Gold on her blog and on Twitter. Twitter: http://twitter.com/Jasmine76625993Blog: A Middle-Aged Divorcee Writes Smut: https://m-adws.blogspot.com/Affiliate link to book: https://amzn.to/2RtmAW0Hey Y'all!Thanks for listening to this adults only podcast episode! I'm so very glad you are here! Have a listen to this podcast and give your sexuality a ride! Sexual health is important! Pay attention to yours and whether you have a partner or not, you can still be sexually healthy by providing yourself with personal intimacy and self-care. Romance your own libido, read this, and have fun! Enjoy this amazing erotica story.Have a sexy day!Love,RuanAll my links here: https://linktr.ee/RuanWillowPlease follow my podcast so you don't miss any episodes.If you'd like to support my podcast, and get extra content not offered anywhere else...get the extras here: https://www.patreon.com/ruanwillowSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/ruanwillow)
Otis is one of the people that has moved out of California. We discuss his reasons, and try to understand whether tech jobs will be coming back to the bay area after the pandemic. A lot of the theoretical framework discussed here is coevered in depth in the book The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti.
More thoughts on M1 and the next anti-climactic big bang from Horace.
More thoughts on M1 and the next anti-climactic big bang from Horace.
More thoughts on M1 and the next anti-climactic big bang from Horace.
More thoughts on M1 and the next anti-climactic big bang from Horace.
More thoughts on M1 and the next anti-climactic big bang from Horace.
Christian Parenti is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change, and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder,' (Verso, 2020); 'Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,' (Nation Books, 2011); 'The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq,' (The New Press, 2004); 'The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror,' (Basic Books, 2003); and 'Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis' (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and various other publications. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.
Christian Parenti is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change, and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder,' (Verso, 2020); 'Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,' (Nation Books, 2011); 'The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq,' (The New Press, 2004); 'The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror,' (Basic Books, 2003); and 'Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis' (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and various other publications. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.
We’re back at it and boy has a lot happened over the last two weeks. With all this stuff with coronavirus we are living through some of the most uncertain times we have faced in the last 50+ years. Joe and Evan discuss what has been happening, what will happen, and also a review of The New Geography of Jobs and a look at the parallels between HBOs Chernobyl and our current situation. As always if you have anything you want to bark at us send us an email at podcast@adequatelyinformed.com
A further investigation into climate migration and its challenge to refugee convention frameworks.
Enrico Moretti joins us to talk about America’s most dynamic labor markets, the “brain hubs” and their impact in the U.S economy and society. Enrico Moretti is the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives […]
Today is Friday, August 23, and we’re looking at Delta vs. United.
An interview with Nick Matthews, VP and General Manager of Culture Amp EMEA. Culture Amp was founded, and remains headquartered, in Melbourne, Australia. Nick was brought in to launch Culture Amp in Europe. Learn how he's grown Culture Amp in a new geography without losing the core identity and values of the business.
In the seventh episode of the "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture" podcast series from GMU Cultural Studies, Richard Todd Stafford talks with Christian Parenti, who has written about climate change in The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, and elsewhere. Parenti is an associate professor of economics at John Jay College of CUNY. Among others, he's the author of the book Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence and is working on books about Alexander Hamilton as a political theorist and about the state as an environment-making force. Stafford and Parenti discuss the role of the state in climate adaptation and mitigation.This podcast series is associated with George Mason University Cultural Studies' Colloquium Series. This year's series is called "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture." The industrial revolution liberated human beings from the cycles of nature — or so it once seemed. It turns out that greenhouse gases, a natural byproduct of coal- and petroleum-burning industries, lead to global warming, and that we are now locked into a long warming trend: a trend that will raise sea levels, enhance the occurrence of extreme weather events, and ultimately could threaten food supplies and other vital supports for modern civilization. This podcast series examines the cultural and political-economic dimensions of our ongoing, slow-moving climate crisis. We engage experts from a variety of fields and disciplines to ask questions about capitalism and the environment. How did we get into this mess? How bad is it? Where do we go from here? What sorts of steps might mitigate the damage — or perhaps someday reverse it? At stake are deep questions about humanity’s place in and relationship to nature — and what our systems of governance, production, and distribution might look like in the future. — Roger Lancaster, Colloquium OrganizerLearn more about the Cultural Studies Program at GMU: http://culturalstudies.gmu.eduLearn more about Christian Parenti: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/christian-parentiMusic: Kevin MacLeod "Acid Trumpet," used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Meredith Whitney is the founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group and author of, “FATE OF THE STATES: The New Geography of American Prosperity.” Whitney believes “interior” states like North Dakota, Indiana and Texas are doing a lot better than “coastal” states like California, New York and Florida. She thinks the coastal states continue to struggle long after the recession, while the middle of the country will continue to thrive. Keeping these in mind, she discusses the outlook for the following areas: - Housing prices - Jobs - Quality of schools - Transportation She also shares her advice to help troubled municipal and state governments. Visit the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group at www.meredithwhitneyllc.com.
Meredith Whitney is the founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group and author of, "FATE OF THE STATES: The New Geography of American Prosperity." Whitney believes "interior" states like North Dakota, Indiana and Texas are doing a lot better than "coastal" states like California, New York and Florida. She thinks the coastal states continue to struggle long after the recession, while the middle of the country will continue to thrive. Keeping these in mind, she discusses the outlook for the following areas: - Housing prices - Jobs - Quality of schools - Transportation She also shares her advice to help troubled municipal and state governments. Visit the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group at www.meredithwhitneyllc.com.
We all talk about the weather. And now scientists are doing something about it: providing more accurate warnings before big storms hit. Discover how smart technology – with an eye on the sky – is taking monster weather events by storm. Plus, why severe weather events caused by a warming planet may trigger social and economic chaos. Also, meet the storm chaser who runs toward tornadoes as everyone else flees… and why your cell phone goes haywire when the sun kicks up a storm of its own. Guests: • Michael Smith – Meteorologist, founder of WeatherData and author of Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather • George Kourounis – Explorer and storm chaser • Jeffrey Scargle – Research astrophyscisit in the Astrobiology and Space Science Division at NASA Ames Research Center • Ken Caldeira – Climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Deparment of Global Ecology • Christian Pareti – Contributing editor of The Nation, visiting scholar at the City Univeristy of New York, and author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kathryn interviews three experts in three very different areas. First Kathryn interviews Berkeley Economist Enrico Moretti on his latest book The New Geography of Jobs, where Moretti argues that where you live matters more than ever when it comes to finding the right job. Kathryn also interviews The Love Doctor Terri Orbuch on her book Finding Love Again: 6 Simple Steps to a New and Happy Relationship. Kathryn also explores gene therapy during her interview with Geneticist Ricki Lewis on her book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It.
Journalist Christian Parenti speaks about his new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. He connects the effects of climate change to the increasing number of civil wars, ethnic violence, criminality and failed states between the Topics of Cancer and Capricorn. Parenti argues even in the U.S., factions on the right are using climate change as an excuse to push for increased border control and harsh anti-immigrant policies. Featuring: Christian Parenti, contributing editor at The Nation, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. He is the author of: Tropic of Chaos, Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and The Freedom. For More Information: Christian Parenti: http://www.christianparenti.com/ The International Programme on the State of the Ocean http://www.stateoftheocean.org/ The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/ Climate Reality http://climaterealityproject.org/ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ Pew Center on Global Climate Change: http://www.pewclimate.org/ Conservation International: http://www.conservation.org/learn/climate/Pages/overview.aspx Institute for Global Environmental Strategies http://www.strategies.org/ The post Making Contact – Christian Parenti: Unstable Climate, Unstable People appeared first on KPFA.
Christian Parenti is the author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change & the New Geography of Violence, a powerful analysis of the historical, military, economic & other forces which combine with climate change to move us toward catastrophic convergence. Chistian is a contributing editor at The Nation with a Ph.D. in sociology.