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The Transnational Institute introduces you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. In this podcast we share our research, explore alternatives to the status quo and give a platform to scholars and activists who are at the forefront of the fight against the current neoliberal order. We believe there are alternatives to this world and hope you do too.

The Transnational Institute introduces you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. In this podcast we share our research, explore alternatives to the status quo and give a platform to scholars and activists who are at the forefront of the fight against the current neoliberal order. We believe there are alternatives to this world and hope you do too.
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The Transnational Institute introduces you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. In this podcast we share our research, explore alternatives to the status quo and give a platform to scholars and activists who are at the forefront of the fight against the current neoliberal order. We believe there are alternatives to this world and hope you do too.

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@TNInstitute

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English

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+31206626608

Episodes

4: Fighting Corporate Impunity in South(ern) Africa

4/30/2019
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When Transnational Corporations violate the rights of people and communities, it can be almost impossible to hold them to account. That’s why TNI is a long term supporter of the process towards a United Nations Treaty on Transnational Corporations with regard to Human Rights (https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/binding-treaty-un-process/) . This episode of the State of Power podcast outlines some of the violations against people and the environment, perpetrated by Transnational...

Duration:00:22:24

2: Wealth from the ground up: Cooperative Finance

3/13/2019
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In 2008, as financial markets fell into chaos, the world got an acute reminder of the limitations of the current neoliberal financial system. We need a systemic reversal, to ensure that public resources serve people and planet, and enhance collective and individual well-being. For this to become reality, we must pursue radical but doable proposals and practices, showing how progressive (local) authorities, social movements, workers and unions, among other engaged actors, can provide...

Duration:00:27:01

1: Money for people and planet: State spending as a source of Public Finance.

3/13/2019
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The financial crisis of 2008 revealed the limitations of our current neoliberal financial order. As banks and other financial institutions lost their grip on financial markets across the world, it was the world’s governments that stepped in and saved the system on the backs of their taxpayers. If they have the capacity to create public money to save the banks, why don’t democratically elected governments use that same power to create money and involve people in order to solve problems of...

Duration:00:23:32

3: On Public Banks

3/13/2019
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Duration:00:33:20