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MacrodoseNHS in Crisis w/ Dr Julia Grace Patterson
Welcome to Election Economics, a Macrodose bonus series that we’re running in the lead up to the UK general election on July 4th. Over the coming weeks James…
MacrodoseElection Economics w/ Grace Blakeley
Welcome to Election Economics, a Macrodose bonus series that we’re running in the lead up to the UK general election on July 4th. Over the coming weeks James…
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Election Circus
On this week’s Macrodose James Meadway takes a close look at a seemingly inevitable win for Labour in the upcoming UK general election - what will this…
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EXTRA: The Poverty of Growth w/ Olivier De Schutter
On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Olivier De Schutter to discuss his new book The Poverty of Growth - a concise and well evidenced argument against…
MacrodoseMacrodose x Verso x The Dig LIVE Podcast
On July 26th Macrodose is partnering with Verso Books and the Dig podcast for a special live event over at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. Host Dalia…
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Rishi’s Economic Miracle?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: today’s UK inflation figures - what can we expect and do the numbers tell the full story (1:32) and a…
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Amazon vs. Workers w/ Polly Smythe
On this week’s Macrodose, Polly Smythe takes a look at an upcoming vote at an Amazon Warehouse on whether to unionise. If the workers vote yes, then for the…
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Labour Ditches New Deal for Workers
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: another Labour Party U-Turn as Keir Starmer guts the “New Deal for Workers” (1:47), and a proposed global…
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How Climate Change is Killing Workers
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: a warning from the world bank that inflation could start rising again this year (0:46), a new report…
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ROUNDTABLE: A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things (Revisited)
** Check out the video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel - youtu.be/O5xSeNmF-v0 ** On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Raj Patel and…
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An Uninsurable World
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down new research that shows the world will lose one fifth of its income to climate change over the next 25…
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A Short History of Burnout w/ Hannah Proctor
This week on Macrodose Hannah Proctor leads us on an exploration of burnout. What are the origins of the term, and how can political movements and people on…
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The Future of Nuclear Power
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down a new report over in the US which lays out the climate risks to nuclear power (0:44), a look at how the…
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AI Colonialism
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Britain's ever failing water system and how to fix it (0:53), how AI is feeding colonial forms of…
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ROUNDTABLE: The Economics of The Green Transition
On today’s episode James Meadway is joined by Brett Christophers and Adrienne Buller to discuss the economics of the green energy transition, asking how we…
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Rachel Reeves and the Future of British Economics
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Mais Lecture and what it tells us about a future Labour government (0:40)…
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How Oil Works
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down Britain’s Risotto Crisis (1:28), and a listener question - how does the global market for fossil fuels…
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Should the Bank of England be Independent?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of an economic bounce-back in the United States and what’s driving it (0:47), how interest rates in…
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Budget Reaction Special w/ Stella Tsantekidou
On this week’s Macrodose, BUDGET SPECIAL! James Meadway is joined by Stella Tsantekidou to give an immediate reaction to today's budget announcement by UK…
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Why Your Easter Egg is Smaller This Year
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down chocflation - why Easter Egg prices are so high (2:07), how the world is becoming uninsurable as climate…
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The Truth about Britain’s Recession
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the real meaning of the news that the UK has entered a recession (0:51), the geopolitical consequences of…
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ROUNDTABLE: Anarcho-Capitalism and the Future of Money
Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe who is joined by two thinkers whose work on money, neoliberal capitalism, the state and…
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A Devastating Labour U-turn
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the Labour Party abandoning their £28bn green investment pledge (2:14), the farmers' protests across Europe…
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Tides of Trade
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economic consequences of the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea to global trade (1:46) and a recent report…
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Against Landlords w/ Nick Bano
On this week’s Macrodose Nick Bano gives an alternative perspective on the housing crisis. Throwing out the usual talk of supply, demand, and financialisation…
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ROUNDTABLE: The Political Economy of Palestine
Welcome to this very first episode of Macrodose Roundtable, the show where we go in depth with some of the brightest minds from the world of economics and…
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The Era of Cloud Capital w/ Yanis Varoufakis
On this week’s Macrodose Yanis Varoufakis provides the compelling argument that capitalism has been killed and replaced by a new economic system -…
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Pharmanomics w/ Nick Dearden
On this week’s Macrodose Nick Dearden takes us on a deep dive into the the history of the pharmaceutical industry - asking how it became the leviathan it is…
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The Making of Uber w/ Dalia Gebrial
On this week’s Macrodose Dalia Gebrial takes us on a deep dive into the gig economy (1:54). What are the real costs of the platform promise? Who is losing out…
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Debt, Tomatoes and the Carbon Cost of Crypto
On this week’s Macrodose we bring you our second and final holiday special before we return to the regular show next week. We’ve picked 3 more of our favourite…
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Economics Fundamentals
On this week’s Macrodose we bring you a selection of our favourite stories of the last year. First, from “planetary boundaries” to doughnut economics - are…
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Ghosts of COP Past, Present and Future w/ Asad Rehman
On this week’s Macrodose, Asad Rehman takes us on a journey through COPs past (1:28), present (8:07) and future (14:13). Asad has attended a staggering 15 COPs…
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How Interest Hikes Fuel Climate Change
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how interest rates have been impacting the UK economy (1:10), the growing risks of climate change to…
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COP Special
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the new Loss and Damage Fund agreed at this year’s COP (0:42), why the phasing out of fossil fuels being…
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The Economics of Argentina’s New President
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: what the victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei means for Argentina and the world (1:19) and how…
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[LIVE] Where next for the UK economy?
Macrodose is turning 1! To celebrate we hosted our first Macrodose live event. In this panel discussion James Meadway is joined by Labour MP Nadia Whittome…
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Autumn Statement Special w/ Grace Blakeley
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway is joined by Grace Blakely to discuss today’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt - what this all means for…
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The EV Myth
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: why EVs are not the answer to climate breakdown (0:40) and a surprising success story around price…
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Arctic Resource Wars
Arctic rolls, not Arctic resource conflicts! On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: how the race for Arctic resources is reshaping global…
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Who wins from war?
FOLLOW OUR NEW SOCIAL CHANNELS FOR UPDATES: linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: leaked transcripts that show how…
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UNLOCKED: Why you should care about semiconductors w/ Richard Jones
MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Our guest today is Richard Jones…
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Israel/Palestine
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway takes a look at the devastating events in Israel and Palestine. James examines the wider geopolitical and economic…
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Show update + Macrodose LIVE!
Macrodose LIVE is coming soon! Thursday, November 16th (18:30) at Space4, Finsbury Park, London to be exact... Tickets are limited and will be out on early…
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Conference Debrief w/ Owen Jones
On this week’s Macrodose, Owen Jones debriefs us on the Labour and Conservative party conferences after attending both in the last week. He explores how the…
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Monopoly Capitalism w/ Níall Glynn
On this week’s Macrodose, Níall Glynn leads a deep dive into monopoly capitalism - untangling the web of concentrated power that touches every corner of our…
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UNLOCKED: Understanding Inflation w/ Isabella Weber
Our guest today is Isabella Weber. Isabella is an economist working on inflation, China, global trade and the history of economic thought. She is an Assistant…
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Hot Labour Autumn for the UAW w/ Sarah Jaffe
On this week’s Macrodose, Sarah Jaffe digs deeper into the United Auto Workers strike (1:01) and a listener question - how can care and teaching jobs challenge…
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15 years on from 2008
Fill out our listener survey here: tinyurl.com/3xsja7pw On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the United Auto Workers strike that’s got the US…
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Disaster for UK green energy plans
Fill out our listener survey here: tinyurl.com/3xsja7pw On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Britain's failed offshore wind auction (0:46)…
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Another Brick in the Wall
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the dangerous defunding of Britain’s schools (0:46), the central bankers' annual gathering in Wyoming last…
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Local Government Special w/ Antonia Jennings
On this week’s Macrodose, Antonia Jennings breaks down: the increasing trend of local governments going bankrupt (1:30), the power of local government to…
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UNLOCKED Making Neoliberalism: the economics of Empire w/ Kojo Koram
After Kojo Koram stepped in to guest-host the regular show this week, we're unlocking this fascinating MACRODOSE EXTRA chat with James recorded back in…
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How Jamaica almost stopped neoliberalism w/ Kojo Koram
On this week’s Macrodose, Kojo Koram tells us a longer form story: how Jamaica nearly saved the world from Neoliberalism, and the international economic order…
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Is Bidenomics working??
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the reality behind the touted success of Bidenomics (1:41), and the role of organised labour today -…
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Beyond Techno-Solutionism: gender and platform work w/ Anjali Krishan and Kavita Dattani
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose Our guests today are Anjali Krishan and Kavita Dattani. They’ve joined us today on behalf of Fairwork, an…
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Inflation Nation(s)
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: global food inflation (0.44), Italy’s 40% windfall tax on bank super profits (5.34) and a listener…
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Petro Politics
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the economics behind Rishi Sunak’s decision to allow over a hundred new drilling licences for North Sea…
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Capitalism as Usual w/ Cecilia Rikap
MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of economics. Subscribe today at…