Podcasts

Dean speaks with Milo Vassallo, Executive Director of the Media and Democracy Project, about combating news deserts and the power of citizen journalism.

This week Dean speaks to Kim Weeden, Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality, about why America’s wage gap keeps growing. 

Vice President for Health Policy, Sarah Lueck, of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities joins Dean Baker to discuss the Affordable Care Act’s future amid a prolonged government shutdown.

Ha-Joon Chang, Professor at the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London and Senior Research Fellow at CEPR, critiques the IMF and World Bank’s Washington Consensus model. He explains how neoclassical economics locks poor countries into existing capabilities.

Dean Baker speaks with Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, about unions’ role in reducing inequality, how employer wage-setting power shapes labor markets, sectoral bargaining experiments in California and Minnesota, the problems with H-1B visa programs, and why Democrats shifted away from labor policy toward tax-and-transfer approaches in recent decades.

Dean Baker speaks with Heather Boushey, former Council of Economic Advisers member and current Professor of Practice at UPenn’s Climate Center for Energy Policy, about the Biden administration’s economic legacy.

Economist Juliet Schor discusses her groundbreaking four-day workweek research, revealing how companies maintain productivity while dramatically improving worker well-being.

Dean Baker interviews Laura Dresser, Associate Director of Wisconsin’s High Road Strategy Center, about the power of state and local policy to improve working people’s lives.

Climate scientist Michael Mann and vaccine researcher Peter Hotez discuss their book “Science Under Siege,” examining how plutocrats, petrostates, press, pros, and propagandists undermine scientific truth.

Dean Baker and economist Robert Pollin discuss Trump’s chaotic first weeks – from firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage paperwork to shutting down an 80% complete wind farm.