Poliko - Conversations in Political Economy

03/06/2021

Our discussion of the new book by Thomas Marois from SOAS and UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on how Public Banks can foster Decarbonisation, Definancialisation and Democratisation

https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8614056-public-banks-decarbonisation-definancialisation-and-democratisation-by-thomas-marois-book-preview

Today I am joined with Thomas Marois from the School of Oriental and African Studies to discuss the backdrop to his latest book "Public Banks. Decarbonisation, Definancialisation and Democratisation" which is coming out with Cambridge University ...

22/05/2021

https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8547868-episode-06-rwanda-s-growth-miracle-in-context-industrial-policy-and-state-business-relations-in-sub-saharan-africa-with-pritish-behuria

Pritish Behuria from the University of Manchester has a long expertise in studying industrial policy and comparative developmental trajectories in Sub-Saharan Africa. In today’s episode, we first talk about the broader context of a supposedly post...

05/05/2021

Poliko E05 Socialize Data! Power, Sovereignty and Anti-Politics in Digital Rentier Capitalism... and Socialist alternatives with Jathan Sadowski from Monash University

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1725887/episodes/8460034

26/04/2021

https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8391996-episode-04-the-transperiphery-movement-exhibition-towards-a-global-history-of-peripheral-connections-with-zoltan-ginelli

I am talking today with Zoltán Ginelli, a Hungarian critical geographer whose research repositions the semi-peripheral experience of Hungarian modernization in a global context, by studying the many points of connections linking peoples, ideas, ex...

26/04/2021

https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8295496-episode-03-the-geopolitical-economy-of-china-s-bri-in-central-asia-with-niva-yau-tsz-yan

Today I am talking about China’s engagement in Central Asia with Niva Yau Tsz Yan from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A region often overlooked by Western media and academic research, Central Asia plays a central role in China's Belt an...

26/03/2021

Unpacking State Capitalism with Marxist State Theory
https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8200935-episode-02-marxist-state-theory-for-de-orientalizing-state-capitalism-with-ilias-alami

State capitalism is today a label often applied to China, Russia or the Arab Gulf as a model threatening to displace Western liberal conceptions of insulated markets driven by fair competition and minimal state interventions. In this episode, I'm...

12/03/2021

Coercion and consent, class and ideology in Hungary's authoritarian re-embedding of neoliberal capitalism

https://poliko.buzzsprout.com/1725887/8120840-episode-01-the-making-of-illiberal-hegemony-in-hungary-with-gabor-scheiring-and-kristof-szombati

In this episode, I am joined by two Hungarian scholars, Gábor Scheiring from Bocconi University and Kristóf Szombati from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Gábor and Kristóf have worked extensively together in opposition politics b...