Business and Economics – Pod Academy: Recent Episodes
Business and Economics – Pod Academy
In the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel left a trail of breadcrumbs. Every day we leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs – locations tracked by phone companies, transport providers, banks and social apps. Our activities, our likes/dislikes, our contacts are mapped and stored. Who benefits?
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China asserts its cyber sovereignty using the internet’s architecture of the Domain Name System (DNS). The control techniques it has pioneered are now used by governments around the world.
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‘Originality’ does not mean creation from nothingness, argues law professor and musician, Olufunmilayo Arewa. Even Handel borrowed music from others.
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Lise Vogel’s Marxism and the Oppression of Women is regarded as one of the founding texts of Marxist Feminism. This recording of the relaunch of the book is part of our Marxism in the 21st Century series.
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Universities should be places for innovation and ideas, challenging orthodoxy and asking radical questions. In this podcast we look at a new economic approach that hundreds of companies, universities, local governments and indviduals are signing up to.
The post Creating an Economy for the Common Good appeared first on Pod Academy.
The world faces great problems but collectively we are not at the mercy of forces outside our control, the future is very much in our hands, says Prof Tony Atkinson
The post Inequality: What can be done? appeared first on Pod Academy.
Globalisation has improved nutrition and child mortality, increased income and life expectancy. But turbo-charged globalisation contains systemic risks – growing inequality, pandemics, cyber and terrorist attacks. Are our international institutions up to the challenge?
The post The Butterfly Defect: How globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about It appeared first on Pod Academy.
Most of us don’t really understand what money is, or what it might be. Can it be wrested from the domination and mismanagement of banks and governments and restored to its fundamental role as a “claim upon society”?
The post The Social Life of Money appeared first on Pod Academy.
On Friday 7th November 2014, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities hosted a conference entitled ‘Football and Culture 2014.’ The event aimed to explore the relationship and interaction between football and wider…
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Greece is going to the polls, against the background of austerity measures that have signally failed to reduce the public debt. Further austerity measures cannot work argues economist Yannis Kitromilides, the only way forward is radical reform of the EMU.
The post Greece, Austerity and the European Monetary Union appeared first on Pod Academy.
If economics is about ‘choice under constraint’, then virtual economies are all around us in the digital sphere – retweeting, clicks on facebook, bitcoin, game play. Can our behaviour in virtual economies teach us anything about ‘real world’ economics?
The post Virtual Economies – what can they teach us about the real world? appeared first on Pod Academy.
A look at the highs and lows of living high up. And how high rise flats could be the answer to the housing crisis, if planning regulations allow.
The post The High Life: Living high up appeared first on Pod Academy.
Money. We all know what it is, but who creates money? The answer is actually surprising. 97% of money in our economy is created by private banks when they make loans, and this is carried out by these banks simply typing numbers into a computer. In doing so, private banks invariably divert this newly created money into house price bubbles and other forms of financial speculation.
The post Economics and Everyday Life – Part Two appeared first on Pod Academy.
These days we are used to hearing about the power of banks, GDP percentages, hedge funds, shareholders, stock market reports, house prices, the business cycle, deficits, debts, surpluses – but has it always been this way? Has money and finance always been such a prominent focal point for the popular consciousness? And if so, how has the representation of money changed and what does this tell us about our society?
The post Economics and Everyday Life – Part One appeared first on Pod Academy.
Newspapers are dying. There may be a brighter digital future ahead – but is the industry capable of realising it?
The post The death of print in a digital age appeared first on Pod Academy.
Numbers have come to dominate our politics – GDP, RPI, FTSE, debt ratios……But what if we are using the wrong numbers?
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Filipino workers are found in every country around the world, from Spain to HongKong, from Saudi Arabia to South Africa. This ‘labour brokerage’ is a response to neo-liberal policies and globalisation, it demands a re-imagining of citizenship and gender.
The post The Philippines – providing a workforce for the world appeared first on Pod Academy.
Part 2 of our Bitcoin podcast looks at the political and philosophical implications of private currencies and what they can teach existing systems…
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Will Bitcoin, a private digital currency, replace national currencies such as euros, dollars and pounds? Will it languish as an anonymous currency for money laundering and drug deals? Is it a speculative investment rather than a currency? First part of a 2 part podcast.
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The 'precariat', those precarious people who have no secure foothold in the world of work, are a dangerous new class, argues Professor Guy Standing.
The post The precariat – the making of a new class appeared first on Pod Academy.
Today's hyper-connected world faces big challenges e.g. pandemics, climate change, cyber-crime, financial crises. Can the UN and other international institutions provide adequate global governance?
The post Divided Nations: global challenges, global governance appeared first on Pod Academy.
The UK government is keen to strengthen its trade ties with India. What is the role of universities?
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With over 1 million young people out of work in the UK, there is growing evidence that a period of youth unemployment scars people for life, both emotionally and financially, and costs £5bn in welfare payments and £10bn in lost economic output. What can be done?
The post A Demanding Job: youth unemployment in the UK appeared first on Pod Academy.
The East India Company (1600-1858) was the biggest corporation in world history. All but forgotten in the UK - though elsewhere a byword for exploitation and oppression - it leaves an important legacy for the City of London, and, more widely, for what it means to be British.
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