The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

A podcast from the Rhodes Center for International Finance and Economics at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Hosted by political economist and director of the Rhodes Center, Mark Blyth.

Why the left keeps losing (or does it)?
May 16, 2025 – 47:56
Imagining the macroeconomy in interwar Poland
Apr 11, 2025 – 24:01
The puzzling politics of inequality
Mar 7, 2025 – 44:13
Why capitalism can’t solve the climate crisis
Dec 20, 2024 – 42:15
Why we think what we think, when we think about inflation
Nov 22, 2024 – 39:13
Why we ran out of everything during the pandemic, and why it had less to do with the pandemic and more to do with the corporations that made us much more vulnerable to it
Oct 4, 2024 – 41:44
The expulsion of politics? What the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility tells us about the limits of technocracy
Jun 7, 2024 – 43:02
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad
Apr 30, 2024 – 34:33
How asset managers came to own everything and you failed to notice
Mar 25, 2024 – 53:11
The business side of fighting climate change
Dec 8, 2023 – 33:27
An Immigrant Economist in the Land of Inequality: A Conversation with Sir Angus Deaton
Nov 21, 2023 – 32:28
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 3): houses, micro states, finance, carbon
Oct 21, 2023 – 35:27
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 2): growth models at scale
Sep 22, 2023 – 32:51
The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)
Aug 10, 2023 – 33:58
Does economics do more harm than good? And if it does, how would we know harm when we see it?
Jun 6, 2023 – 40:09
Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions
Apr 29, 2023 – 35:04
A wee podcast on the last 50 - and next 50 - years of the global world order
Apr 14, 2023 – 38:51
The ‘free market’ is a fever dream and Adam Smith wasn’t in it
Mar 31, 2023 – 34:23
State power in China: more "Parks and Rec" than command and control?
Mar 10, 2023 – 33:33
What Mark Blyth Got Wrong About Bidenomics and Climate Change
Feb 17, 2023 – 34:38
Why Undoing Globalization is Going to Be a Painful Affair
Dec 16, 2022 – 30:23
This Week in ‘Ask a Philosopher’: Is the ‘American Dream' Dead?
Nov 4, 2022 – 31:34
How Did We End Up with the Idea of a Growing Economy? ‘The Journey of Humanity’ with Oded Galor
Jul 11, 2022 – 45:32
What if I told you that international money is governed by no more than the beliefs of a handful of super-connected global elites…and yet there is no conspiracy. Would you be interested?
Jun 17, 2022 – 35:56
Can Social Media and Democracy Co-exist? A Conversation with Frances Haugen
May 27, 2022 – 24:52
The Global Roots of Neomercantilism
Apr 8, 2022 – 38:39
Fiona Hill on Deindustrialization, Despair and Demagoguery
Mar 11, 2022 – 32:18
The Past, Present, and Contested Future of Central Banks
Feb 25, 2022 – 36:33
‘How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Policy” with Elizabeth Popp Berman
Feb 11, 2022 – 31:11
The Forgotten History of “The Labor Board Crew”: How Mediators at the US Labor Board Changed Organized Labor (and the World)
Jan 28, 2022 – 23:49
America Has Always Been a 'Credit Nation'
Dec 8, 2021 – 30:40
The Other Problem with Ratings Agencies
Oct 1, 2021 – 37:02
'Bidenomics': Policy Change or Paradigm Shift?
Jun 3, 2021 – 27:56
The Robots May Be Coming, But Probably Not for Your Job
Apr 8, 2021 – 28:06
How Precarity Puts Capitalism on Edge
Mar 16, 2021 – 33:20
Is Now the Time for a Federal Jobs Guarantee?
Feb 10, 2021 – 25:23
The Left, Divided Over the Extraction Economy
Dec 10, 2020 – 27:38
Austerity Myths and the Health of Nations: What Malawi Tells Us About the Construction of Scarcity
Nov 22, 2020 – 26:40
How Fraud Explains the Economy
Nov 16, 2020 – 33:52
Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Nov 5, 2020 – 25:38
Why Does the EU Have a Legitimacy Problem?
Aug 7, 2020 – 31:27
Do Deficits Matter? (MMT Explained)
Jul 15, 2020 – 42:03
The Fraught, Complex, and Important 'Economics of Belonging'
Jun 25, 2020 – 43:21
Populism, or 'Anti-System Politics'?
Jun 17, 2020 – 44:02
How US Hegemony Ends
Jun 12, 2020 – 43:20
Possibilities for a Post-Covid Economy
May 29, 2020 – 29:11
The First Globalist: Sandy Zipp Talks Wendell Willkie’s World
May 15, 2020 – 42:39
The Corona Oil Shock
May 3, 2020 – 45:37
State Capacity, Growth Models, and Coronavirus in Latin America
Apr 27, 2020 – 34:32
'Leftism Reinvented' with Stephanie Mudge
Mar 25, 2020 – 27:55