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Public Policy October 1, 2023

When We Walk By

Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or …

Economics

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Interviews with economists about their new books.

Anthropology September 30, 2023

Progress in the Balance

Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil

Daniel R. Reichman

Hosted by Yadong Li
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 29, 2023

Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea

A Discussion with Stella Zhang

Stella Zhang

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
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Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, boba or tapioca milk tea is a popular drink in Asia. Wherever there is Asian diaspora, such as in the USA, one …
Anthropology September 29, 2023

Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic

Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods

Christian Krohn-Hansen

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
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The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and …
Science, Technology, and Society September 28, 2023

Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Kashmir Hill

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify …
South Asian Studies September 27, 2023

Platformization and Informality

Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
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In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore …
Sociology September 26, 2023

Selling the American People

Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

Lee Mcguigan

Hosted by Blyss Cleveland
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How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs" …
Sociology September 24, 2023

The Golden Passport

Global Mobility for Millionaires

Kristin Surak

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our chances in life. Obtaining a new …
Environmental Studies September 22, 2023

Clean Air and Good Jobs

U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Todd E. Vachon

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
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The labor–climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for supporting climate protection as a vehicle for good jobs …
Interpretive Political and Social Science September 20, 2023

Rooted Globalism

Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries

Kevin Funk

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
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Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics or sovereign power. Or has …
International Horizons September 18, 2023

Global Inequality

Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?

Jayati Gosh

Hosted by International Horizons
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviewed Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about different debates surrounding inequality. Ghosh criticizes …
Public Policy September 17, 2023

Your Money Or Your Life

Debt Collection in American Medicine

Luke Messac

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the crime of falling sick without wealth …
Environmental Studies September 16, 2023

Disrupting D.C.

The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 15, 2023

Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia

A Discussion with Jonathan Rigg and Marta Bivand Erdal

Jonathan Rigg and Marta Bivand Erdal

Hosted by Arve Hansen
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Is migration good or bad for development? How does migration affect those who leave and those who stay behind? How are rural and urban livelihoods interconnected in Asian cities? What …
Public Policy September 15, 2023

Poverty in the Pandemic

Policy Lessons from COVID-19

Zachary Parolin

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
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Zachary Parolin's book Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023) is interested in poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., as well as what the …
SSEAC Stories September 13, 2023

Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue

Indonesia and Beyond

Zulfan Tadjoeddin

Hosted by Natali Pearson
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Inequality has always been key to understanding Indonesia’s development. But this is a multidimensional issue, and one that has manifested in vastly different ways in Indonesia over the years: from …
African American Studies September 12, 2023

The Black Reparations Project

A Handbook for Racial Justice

William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice …
European Politics September 7, 2023

What Went Wrong with Brexit?

And What We Can Do about It

Peter Foster

Hosted by Tim Jones
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It’s been over three years since the UK withdrew from the EU and no one – not even the most ardent Brexiter – thinks it has gone well so far …
Education September 4, 2023

Unionizing the Ivory Tower

Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage

Al Davidoff

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage (ILR Press, 2023) chronicles how a thousand low-paid custodians, cooks, and gardeners succeeded in organizing a …
Science, Technology, and Society September 2, 2023

Industry Unbound

The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

Ari Ezra Waldman

Hosted by Jake Chanenson
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In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine …