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A Correction is an economics podcast that seeks to demystify the economy and make economics accessible.
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Aug 5, 2021 • 0sec
Rick Rowden on the History and Future of the Washington Consensus
Rick Rowden is Senior Economist at Global Financial Integrity and Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University. He completed his PhD on India-Africa economic relations in the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. His academic areas of specialization are International Relations (IR), International Political Economy (IPE) and development economics, and he has expertise in the long-term national economic development strategies of developing countries and the emerging field of South-South economic relations. Currently he is an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the School of International Service (SIS) at American University and a senior economist at the Washington DC-based research NGO, Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Previously, he has worked for international development NGOs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, and has lectured in Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and in Political Science at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has served as a consultant to many international development NGOs and UN agencies, including the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the author of “India-Africa Economic Relations in the 21st Century: Emerging Connections in South-South Economics” (Routledge, forthcoming in 2021).
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Jul 29, 2021 • 0sec
Pritish Behuria on The Opportunism of Global Development Discourses
Pritish Behuria is a Lecturer in Politics, Governance & Development at The University of Manchester. Pritish Behuria’s research operates at the intersection of development studies, comparative politics and international political economy. He is a political economist, trained in classical and heterodox political economy. He takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the challenges associated with late development under 21st Century Globalisation. He completed his PhD in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London (2015).
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Jul 22, 2021 • 0sec
Basil Oberholzer on Development Without Currency Crisis (Is it possible? Yes!)
Basil Oberholzer is an economist with an emphasis on macroeconomics and monetary systems, an area he extensively researched on during his Ph.D. in macroeconomics and monetary policy at the University of Fribourg. His research has led him to publications in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics and ecological economics. He is currently working as an economist at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment where he manages projects on topics such as ecosystem services, cost of inaction and policy evaluation.He was a member of parliament at Canton St. Gallen in Switzerland where he was involved in environmental and social initiatives.
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Jul 14, 2021 • 0sec
Divya Kirti and Dalya Elmalt on the Limits of Sustainable Investing
Dalya Elmalt is a Research Officer in the IMF Research Department. Previously, she worked at NYU Stern School of Business as a Junior Research Scientist. Her research interests include public economics, and corporate and climate finance. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Chicago.Divya Kirti is an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests include financial intermediation, macrofinance, and corporate finance. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and covered by media outlets such as the New York Times.
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Jul 9, 2021 • 0sec
Stefanie K. Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture
Stefanie K. Dunning is associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio. She is author of Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Signs, and several other journals and anthologies. She sometimes publishes under the pen name Zeffie Gaines.Listen to her podcast: Black to Nature
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Jul 5, 2021 • 0sec
Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco on Ocean Renewable Energy
Mary Ann Quirapas-Franco joined the Energy Studies Institute (National University of Singapore) in December 2020. She has nearly a decade of working experience in research and development, multi-project coordination and administration, and event organization. Her academic research includes energy security, renewable energy technology development in Southeast Asia, and sustainability studies. She previously worked at the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) as the Lead Coordinator of two major programs: Southeast Asian Collaboration for Ocean Renewable Energy (SEAcORE, technical working group for offshore energy of the ASEAN Centre for Energy) and the Joint PhD-Industry Program. She has also been involved in different research projects funded by international universities and government agencies across Southeast Asia. She completed her MSc in Asian Studies from Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU and her PhD in Political Science at NUS.Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the interview do not represent the interviewee’s institute.
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Jun 26, 2021 • 0sec
Arun Kumar on Philanthrocapitalism
Arun Kumar is a Lecturer in International Management at the University of York.Previously trained in architecture and development management, he worked for a number of years as an independent researcher and consultant/advisor with leading aid agencies, NGOs, independent research centres, policy think-tanks, and human rights activists in South Asia. Tired of travelling and writing reports, he returned to academia in 2012. After completing his PhD at the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University and working, briefly, in France, he joined the University of York in 2016 as a Lecturer. He is also involved with the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at York.
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Jun 21, 2021 • 0sec
Professor Donald A. Grinde Jr. on the Native American Foundation of US Democracy and Ecology
Professor Grinde is a member of the Yamassee Nation, whose research and teaching have focused on Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history, U.S. Indian policy since 1871, Native American thought, and environmental history. He has written extensively on these topics, including authoring or co-authoring books such as “the Encyclopedia of Native American Biography,” “Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy, Chief of the Iroquois”, “The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation,” “Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy,” (available as an ebook at ratical.org) and “Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples.” His work on environmental issues has also included studying the 16th and 17th century ecological history of a portion of the Susquehanna River, and serving as co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded graduate student training program focused on solving environmental problems in Western New York. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
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Jun 17, 2021 • 0sec
Amir Lebdioui on the Myth of the "Free-Market Miracle" in Chile
Amir Lebdioui is the Canning House Research Fellow based at LACC at the London School of Economics. His research lies at the crossroads between industrial policy, natural resource management and the sustainable development agenda. As a result, his research has focused on the political economy of resource-based development, export diversification strategies, and green industrial policy in the context of renewable energy development and climate change. In addition to preparing a number of journal articles, Amir is also working on developing a new indicator of extractive-based development. He also regularly provides analysis for multilateral development organizations.He was previously an LSE Fellow in Development Management at the LSE Department of International Development and a teaching fellow in Political Economy of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK). He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.
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