055. Economic theories: Marxian Economics

That whole idea of countries and companies saying, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t rely on one tiny island for all our chips, or one country for all our manufacturing.” It’s reshoring-bringing stuff back home. Nearshoring - moving it to friendly neighbours like Mexico. Friendshoring—wor ...  Show more

In this episode we are going to talk about what's happening right now with family wealth. You've probably heard the headlines - the Great Wealth Transfer, trillions of dollars passing from one generation to the next. But today, I want to pull back the curtain and talk about it li ...  Show more

ORIGINALLY RELEASED Feb 3, 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) in which Hayek (1899-1992) warned that the way Britain was running its wartime economy would not work in peacetime and could lead to tyranny. His target was centralised pla ...  Show more

Breht listens to, comments on, and expounds upon a public lecture by the late professor of philosophy Rick Roderick from 1989 on Hegel, Marx, and modern American capitalism. Along the way he explicates the Hegelian notion of Freedom, Right and Left Hegelianism, the End of History ...  Show more

In this episode, Alyson and Breht explore Friedrich Engels' Dialectics of Nature, a bold and underappreciated attempt to apply dialectical materialism to the natural sciences. Often dismissed or misunderstood, this unfinished work offers a sweeping view of reality - from physics ...  Show more