Episode 358 – Capital Controls (w/ Steve Maher)

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Unlike in 2020 & 2016, a prescriptive progressive economic agenda hasn’t been thrust into mainstream consideration this election cycle. Rather, any talk of the economy has largely centered around questions of inflation: whether Biden is or isn’t making it better, and whether leftists are overstating the cost of living struggles of working people. This week, Professor of Economics at SUNY-Cortland Steve Maher joins Bad Faith to assert a positive economic vision for the left, how to defeat globalization, and whether or not right-populists have gotten anything right in these regards — if only rhetorically. We also debate the value of left electoralism, whether “fraud squad” is a fair charge, and the limits of labor militancy.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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