We talk with Henry Aaron about why both Sanders and Warren have it wrong. Mr. Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).
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We speak with Joseph J. Gonzalez about life and capitalism in post-Castro Cuba. Joseph J. Gonzalez is Associate Professor, Global Studies at Appalachian State University. He is a historian of the Cuban-U.S. relationship, publishing in both English and in Spanish, in the United States and Cuba, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Cuban History. He is finishing a book on the Cuba's relationship with the United States, titled Facing the Sun: Cuba's Challenge to America's Empire, 1868-1959.
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We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).
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We speak with Alfredo Saad-Fihlo about the Brazilian elections. We discuss the improbable rise of Jair Bosonaro, the tragic fall of Lula and the PT, and the future of Brazilian democracy. Alfredo Saad-Filho is a professor of political economy in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London.
