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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…
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Understanding Growth and Degrowth
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: new research in Nature Sustainability examining the prospect of collapsing ecosystems (1.45), and a…
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The NHS Crisis w/ Grace Blakeley
On this week’s Macrodose, Grace Blakeley breaks down what is driving the crisis in the NHS, and answers a listener question about what policies the Labour…
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Tales from the Polycrisis
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Thames Water teetering on the brink of collapse - is it time to bring our water systems back under public…
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Should we worry about government debt?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Britains debt growing bigger than national income - how worried should we really be (0.46), the Bank of…
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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. Subscribe today at…
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Inflation, Inflation, Inflation
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the inflation figures due to be released this week and the Bank of England's likely response (0.56), and a…
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UBI vs UBS
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: a listener question - Universal Basic Income vs Universal Basic Services (0.47), Labour shrinking its £28…
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Understanding Inflation w/ Isabella Weber
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…
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Doughnut Economics
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: planetary boundaries - are there quantifiable limits to our exploitation of nature? (1:09) The hype around…
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UNLOCKED The End of Capitalism? The economics of crisis w/ Yanis Varoufakis
To celebrate our 6 month anniversary, we're unlocking some of our favourite Macrodose Extra episodes from our Patreon. For many more like this, head over to…
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UNLOCKED Robots and Foucault: the economics of work w/ Sarah Jaffe
To celebrate our 6 month anniversary, we're unlocking some of our favourite Macrodose Extra episodes from our Patreon. For many more like this, head over to…
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A Planetary Fever-Dream: reflections on eco-socialism w/ Richard Seymour
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…
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Tory price caps?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the possibility of price caps on essential goods from the Tories (2.07), Rachel Reeves’ speech in…
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Is there WIFI in here?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the looming prospect of another summer of droughts, what’s next for the UK's failing water systems (0:43)…
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Greedflation
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Greedflation - what is it and what are the mainstream missing (0:46), the impact of sanctions on…
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No-deposit mortgages???
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the return of no-deposit mortgages and what they show us about our housing market (1:07), how the steep…
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The King’s Gambit: the economics of Charles Windsor w/ James Butler
On a special episode of Macrodose, James Meadway is joined by James Butler to discuss the coronation of Britain’s new King. What makes Charles III tick? What…
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Food, Glorious Food
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: food inflation (0:42), why AI is fuelling resource conflicts (6:51) and Chile's plans to nationalise…
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Sowing Division: the economics of racial capitalism w/ Gargi Bhattacharyya
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…
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Why are house prices falling?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: falling house prices and how they fit with the broader economic crisis (2:04), why AI is unlikely to…
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Crypto Polluters
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the real world impact of cryptocurrencies (1:35), the economic turmoil in Sri Lanka and role of the IMF and…
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Reclaiming our Time
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down France’s historic climate protests over new mega reservoirs (0:49), a new study on how the way we use our…
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Consulting, Privatisation and the Economics of the State w/ Rosie Collington
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…
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Paris is Burning
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the current strikes in France (0:52), the Deutsche Bank share price crash amidst…
MacrodoseGreat Recession 2.0?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: Credit Suisse and the threat of another financial crisis (1:29) and what ecological breakdown means for…
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Budget Reaction w/ John McDonnell
James is joined by former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for a special bonus episode of Macrodose reacting to yesterday's Budget. www.patreon.com/Macrodose
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Budget Day
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: today’s budget, what to look out for and why the government is playing it down (1:28), and the collapse of…
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Gary Lineker stole my crisps: the economics of the media w/ Tom Mills
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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A rare dose of reality from the Bank of England
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down a new report showing the importance of involving fossil fuel industry workers in the green transition…
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Let them eat turnips!
On this week’s Macrodose James Meadway breaks down: the sudden disappearance of tomatoes and other fruit and veg from Britain’s supermarkets (0:45), how…
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The Rise and Fall of American Capitalism w/ Professor Richard Wolff
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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From Fiscal Black Hole to Budget Surplus?
On this week’s Macrodose James Meadway breaks down: the news of a budget surplus, and just how far the official narrative stretches economic truths (0.40s)…
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UNLOCKED Betting Against the Future: the economics of inequality w/ Gary Stevenson
To celebrate hitting 100 Macrodose subscribers on Patreon.com this week, we’re unlocking the full version of one of our favourite Macrodose Extra interviews -…
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The UK avoids recession, just…
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the news that the UK narrowly avoided dipping into recession at the end of last year (1:42), a deeper dive…
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Profiting from Apocalypse: the economics of climate breakdown w/ Kate Aronoff
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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I want to be in America
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: new figures that signal positive news for the US economy (0:48), how good news for the US might be bad…
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The largest wave of strikes in a generation, but will they win?
On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the UK’s recording-breaking wave of strikes (0:42), how these compare to other strike…
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Making Neoliberalism: the economics of Empire w/ Kojo Koram
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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Dedollarisation, Bretton Woods III, and a global wealth tax?
In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the shift away from the dominance of the dollar (0:41), what this means for US economic power (3:13), and a…
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Polycrisis at Davos, US in debt, and deadly heatwaves
On this week’s episode of Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of a “polycrisis” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the threat of default as the US…
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Betting Against the Future: the economics of inequality w/ Gary Stevenson
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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Wage bounce in Europe, Global South debt, and poverty in Britain
In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down: the European Central Bank’s report of a wage bounce in Europe (0.37), the odious debt regimes crippling…
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China’s downturn, Blackrock’s predictions, and the struggling tech billionaires
In the latest episode of MACRODOSE, James Meadway breaks down a new IMF forecast that predicts China’s economic downturn, a set of predictions for our economic…
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Robots and Foucault: the economics of work w/ Sarah Jaffe
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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The economics of inactivity, covid contracts and Japan’s policy twist
On this week’s MACRODOSE James Meadway takes a look at a new House of Lord’s report on economic inactivity (0:52s), the financial waste of Covid contracts…
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Public pay, bankers' bonuses, and who benefits from interest rate hikes?
On this week’s episode James Meadway breaks down the public sector pay dispute (1:27), Sunak’s move to further deregulate finance (9:05), and the interest rate…
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The End of Capitalism? The economics of crisis w/ Yanis Varoufakis
FULL EPISODE available at: patreon.com/Macrodose MACRODOSE EXTRA takes you behind the scenes to go in-depth with some of the leading voices from the world of…
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Russian oil, the food crisis and a 4-day work week
On this week’s episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the G7-backed price cap on Russian oil (0.41), the warning from the National Farmers' Union that…
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Strike Economics
On this week’s episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the strikes that are spreading across the U.K, from the railways, to…
MacrodoseInflation, austerity and the wage-price spiral
On the first episode of Macrodose James Meadway breaks down the the OECD warning that the UK’s growth prospects are the worst of all the G7 countries (1:06)…
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We’re living through a time of unprecedented economic turmoil. From war, to the pandemic, to supply chain failures and climate breakdown, it is everyday people…
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Approaching Peak Oil
On this week's episode of Macrodose, James Meadway takes a look at how the drive to produce and consume more is creating a monumental trail of waste (0:33)…
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Approaching Peak Oil
On this week's episode of Macrodose, James Meadway takes a look at how the drive to produce and consume more is creating a monumental trail of waste, and what…