Who For? Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Mark Dudzik was organizing when the US was transforming in the late 1970s into a neoclassical paradise. Incentives lead us to power. Here's what voters should know about how labor controls us.
First episode in Money and Power Anthology Vol I. Dr. Paul Jorgensen questions the assumptions of our biggest systems. What is value? How do the incentinves affect our behavior? Our understanding of reality?
We learned in Part I about how the incentives would lead to catastrophe. Then we saw the system failure manifest in the blackouts from the Winter Storm, earlier this year. Ed Hirs is back in Part II to summarize the Texas Legislative Session on Energy and provide more details on the rules of the PUC/ERCOT game. We were happy to point some fingers at responsible parties, and spoil alert, it wasn't the energy companies, the PUC, or ERCOT.
It's the people we elect to make rules for us.
How many of our beliefs are natural, and how many are learned? If learned, from where? It's all about the inputs.
Join us in an application of such questions to negative bias towards certain races or religions.
Dr. Lajevardi lays out her experiment examining the News Media's impact on our attitudes towards other people. In our opinion, the results of the experiment are both terrifying and actionable.
Join us with Houston economist Ed Hirs in a discussion of energy policy and bad incentives. We are all dependent on energy to survive. Should the structure support choosing profit over saving lives?