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Towards a superior and egalitarian stage of development. A social democracy project.

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Are you a socialist that wants to know how stock markets work? Are you worried that you're selling out by doing it? Today we're joined by Zach Teutsch, a leftist financial advisor to discuss this.

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Today we're joined by health care policy analyst James Leckie to talk about the history of American healthcare, the byzantine mess it's in right now, and what any conceivable improvements in the future for the system would look like.  

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The Australian Left is risen! What caused the collapse of the Right?  Where do they go from here? How will the left govern? We've got David  Sligar and Ben Spies-Butcher from Macquarie University in Sydney to discuss.  

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Welcome back, it's been a while. Join us, as we consume some mind-altering substances, and then wonk out about the child tax credit for an hour with our guests Stephen Nunez and James Leckie.  

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Today we're joined by guest Blair Fix as he explains concepts from the book "Capital as Power" by Bichler and Nitzan, his thoughts on the current inflationary pressures, and his ideas on the future of economics. 

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Today we're joined by guest Matt Darling as he walks us through the problems with America's broken UI system, the reforms that could take place, his thoughts on the current employment recovery, and his take on the elusive James Medlock.

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In this episode of The Interview we speak to Lars Doucet and Mark Mollineaux about Land Value Taxation! 🔰🔰🔰  

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In this episode of The Interview we speak to Stephen Nuñez, Lead Researcher on Guaranteed Income at the Jain Family Institute. We discuss UBI, why it's important, and how it ought to fit into the welfare state.

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Post-Keynesian Economics is a school of heterodox economics that builds on the framework provided by John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Piero Sraffa, and several other core contributors. It is unified in its approach to properly understanding economics by focusing on the principle of effective demand, the theory of income distribution & value, and a monetized production economy. Join us and Cartesian Otter as we walk through it.

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Welcome to a special episode of The Interview. We sit down with People's  Policy Project founder Matt Bruenig to talk about the Democrat's Build Back Better bill, its problems, and what liberals seem to get consistently wrong about the design of a welfare state. Thank you for listening, and Merry Christmas.

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On Episode 7 of The Interview by the Nordic Model we talk to Jain Family Institute fellow and NYDSA organizer Paul Williams about the importance of public housing and NYCHA's plan to avoid privatization.

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Welcome back to The Interview! This week I’m talking to SocialismDoneLeft. He’s a prominent YouTuber that talks about socialism and progressivism. We’re talking wealth taxes. Specifically what they are, what’s the best collection mechanism for them, and their efficiency. How do we make sense of them?

Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders were pushing for wealth taxation in the 2020 Democratic primaries, Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century, pushed for a wealth tax as a mechanism of action against the growing inequality we see in the world. Wealth taxes have been implemented with varying success across European countries. We discuss all of these on this episode. Thanks for listening!

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David Sligar discusses the most means tested welfare regime in the world - Australia.

At its best points in the 20th century, Australia seemed to contradict Esping-Andersen's 3 Worlds typology, embodying the means testing associated with liberalism but with a reasonable amount of egalitarian redistribution and a conception of welfare as a social right.

David focuses on the two largest payments - age pension and child benefits, on which Australia's commitment to means testing wavered in the mid 20th century only to come back with a vengeance along with a more privatized and conditional model of social provisions.

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On this episode of the interview we're joined by Leo Sammallahti. One of the most vehement proponents of co-operatives. We walk through the history of co-ops, some exciting co-ops that are starting up now, and what the future of co-ops looks like.

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