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The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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Rhodes Center

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.

#74

The story of capitalism, as told by its critics

For as long as this thing we call “capitalism” has existed, it has had its fair share of c... more

Yesterday

33 MINS

33:01

Yesterday

#73

The extraction industry powering the green transition

Lithium is an essential ingredient of most modern electronics. It helps to power our phone... more

24 Nov 2025

39 MINS

39:29

24 Nov 2025

#72

Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part two)

This is the second part of a two-part series featuring Leah Downey, a political economist ... more

26 Sep 2025

40 MINS

40:36

26 Sep 2025

#71

Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)

This is the first in a two-part series featuring Leah Downey, political theorist at King’s... more

19 Sep 2025

36 MINS

36:05

19 Sep 2025

#70

The role of universities in a democratic society (a collaboration with “Brown 2026”)

What’s the role of a university in a democratic society? What responsibility do universiti... more

20 Jun 2025

34 MINS

34:18

20 Jun 2025

#69

Why the left keeps losing (or does it)?

On this episode, Mark talks with two guests to try and understand why, despite growing rig... more

16 May 2025

47 MINS

47:56

16 May 2025

#68

Imagining the macroeconomy in interwar Poland

On this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Małgorzata Mazurek, a historian, associate professo... more

11 Apr 2025

24 MINS

24:01

11 Apr 2025

#67

The puzzling politics of inequality

In this episode, Mark Blyth talks with two inequality experts to try and understand someth... more

07 Mar 2025

44 MINS

44:13

07 Mar 2025

#66

Why capitalism can’t solve the climate crisis

To state the obvious, there are many hurdles to addressing the climate crisis in a meaning... more

20 Dec 2024

42 MINS

42:15

20 Dec 2024

#65

Why we think what we think, when we think about inflation

This is a new experiment we’re trying at the Rhodes Center Podcast. From time to time, goi... more

22 Nov 2024

39 MINS

39:13

22 Nov 2024

#64

Why we ran out of everything during the pandemic, and why it had less to do with the pandemic and mo...

Remember the supply chain problems of 2020 and 2021? The story we were told was that the C... more

04 Oct 2024

41 MINS

41:44

04 Oct 2024

#63

The expulsion of politics? What the UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility tells us about the limits o...

When it comes to governing our economy, estimates rule the day. We want to know what effec... more

08 Jun 2024

43 MINS

43:02

08 Jun 2024

#62

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad

When you think of high-end luxury commodities, you might imagine yachts, private jets, or ... more

30 Apr 2024

34 MINS

34:33

30 Apr 2024

#61

How asset managers came to own everything and you failed to notice

Listeners of the Rhodes Center Podcast have probably heard of companies like Black Rock, S... more

25 Mar 2024

53 MINS

53:11

25 Mar 2024

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