World Tour 4: How to beat the resource curse ...

Imagine a nation where, for the residents, land is for the claiming. You walk down the street, pick out a nice looking plot of land, and just plop down a marker. No rent, no taxes, no deed – just free land. That’s the communal system of property rights that governed a small Carib ...  Show more

Let’s head to a small town in Kenya that’s become globally famous for helping economists answer some of the biggest questions facing humanity.In Kenya and Nigeria, economics isn’t just theory, it’s real life. We’ll look at some radical experiments that turned out to be enormously ...  Show more

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it's usually the bosses. Today, we look at two key moments when the power of labor shifted, for better and worse, and we ask why then? What does history have to say about labor power right now? We travel to ...  Show more

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Peter Olney is a labor organizer of over half a century, long-time org ...

In the conclusion of our series on the Industrial Revolution, we'll look at other industries that changed along with iron and textiles. We'll also learn about the living and work conditions of laborers and how that transformed our notions about work.See omnystudio.com/listener fo ...  Show more

Boss is a podcast based around working practices pre and post Pandemic. It's a controversial topic that will need students to focus on expressing themselves in English as a second language. In this podcast, I want to discuss how the world has transformed and adapted to new wor ...