Neoliberal NYC Episode 1: In conversation with Kim Phillips-Fein

Ernest Leif Boyd speaks with Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City. Kim Phillips-Fein teaches American history at New York University, where she is an associate professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  She is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (W.W. Norton, 2009).  She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2017 – 2020). Fear City was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for history and  was one of Kirkus Review's Best American History Books for 2017. 

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A New Understanding of Congress

This episode might radically change the way you think about Congress. We speak with political scientist Frances E. Lee about the new hyper-competitive nature of Congress and the implications of congressional parity. Professor Lee has been a member of the University of Maryland faculty since 2004. Her work has received national recognition, including the American Political Science Association's Richard F. Fenno Award for the best book on legislative politics in 2009, the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic in both 1999 and 2009, and the APSA's E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics in 1997. To watch an interview with Lee about her book Beyond Ideology on C-SPAN's Book TV, click here. To watch Ezra Klein's interview with Lee about presidential leadership of Congress on Vox.com, click here.

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Neoliberal NYC

We are joined by Acorrection team member Ernest Leif Boyd to discuss the episodes he will be producing for this podcast over the next few months. Ernest is a film editor, born and raised in New York City. He started out his career working in reality television for NYT Television where he was an instrumental part of Local 700, The Motion Picture Editors Guilds successful union organizing campaign.

His section of the podcast will lean towards, though by no means be exhausted by discussions of New York City and gentrification.

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Degrowth

We speak with Federico Demaria about the radical concept of Degrowth and the failure of “sustainable development.” Federico Demaria is an ecological economist at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member of Research & Degrowth, and co-editor of Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary.

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State Violence and Modernity

We speak with Maged Mandour about the huge upsurge in state violence in Egypt after the 2013 coup and the complicity of the middle class. Maged Mandour graduated from Cambridge with a Masters in International Relations. He is a political analyst and the columnist of “Chronicles of the Arab Revolt” on openDemocracy. He is also a writer for Sada, the online journal for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

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The Economics of the NBA

We talk with Matthew Miranda about the NBA. We discuss the salary cap, the economics of “small markets”, why some teams are fine with missing the playoffs and much more. Matthew Miranda writes about the NBA for SBNation, and teaches creative writing and English at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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How Fair Trade Favors the Rich

We speak with Ndongo Samba Sylla about the dangerous myths of the Fair Trade movement. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist. He is currently a Research and Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Dakar). He is the author of The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich.

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On Race and Economics

We speak with Brendan (Dan) O’Flaherty about the economics of race in the United States. Professor O’Flaherty teaches Economics at Columbia University. He has written several books, including The Economics of Race in the United States, How to House the Homeless, and Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness.

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The Economics of Selling Christmas Trees in NYC

We speak with Corby Ferlesch about selling Christmas Trees in Astoria. We discuss the best time to buy a tree, what she hopes to earn at the end of the month (and why it’s so hard to calculate), and how to pick a fragrant tree. Happy holidays!

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Winter Break Reading List

We thought it might be fun to put together a Winter Recess reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them! Feel free to write in with suggestions for Feburary Break.

Non-fiction

King Kong Theory by Virgina Despentes

The Non-Jewish Jew by Isaac Deutscher 

Crashed by Adam Tooze

The Radical King edited by Cornel West

Digital Gold by Nate Popper

Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild

Fiction

Laura and Emma by Kate Greathead

Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga

Loner by Teddy Wayne

Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld

Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa

Tell us what you think of the books after you read them!

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