The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

Education Podcasts

A podcast from the Rhodes Center for International Finance and Economics at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Hosted by political economist and director of the Rhodes Center, Mark Blyth.

Episodes

Does the US really make the dollar? Has it ever?

How come corporate justice means never having to admit you're guilty?

The surprising politics of monopoly and competition regulation

The ‘doom loop’ of global disorder

How authoritarianism went from defense to offense on the world stage

A global history of capitalism

The story of capitalism, as told by its critics

The extraction industry powering the green transition

Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part two)

Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)

The role of universities in a democratic society (a collaboration with “Brown 2026”)

Why the left keeps losing (or does it)?

Imagining the macroeconomy in interwar Poland

The puzzling politics of inequality

Why capitalism can’t solve the climate crisis

Why we think what we think, when we think about inflation

Why we ran out of everything during the pandemic, and why it had less to do with the pandemic and more to do with the corporations that made us much more vulnerable to it

The expulsion of politics? What the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility tells us about the limits of technocracy

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad

How asset managers came to own everything and you failed to notice