Podcast Club ONLINE: A Perspective on The Current Global Economy
Details
This week's podcast is The Ezra Klein Show, with guest host Rogé Karma and guest Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at The Financial Times and a former senior economist at the World Bank. Wolf was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999, and was named in the top 100 lists of global thinkers by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazine. He is the author of five books, the latest being The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
NOTE: Please listen to the podcast below before attending the event.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-martin-wolf.html
(includes transcript)
or
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000623031651
(1 hr., 28 min.)
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What's this podcast about?
In this week's episode, guest Martin Wolf gives a framework for trying to understand what is going on in the global economy today. He looks at what he calls "shifts," "shocks," and "fragilities" that shape the times. Shifts include the rise of China, its incredible ability to compete and create a change in world dominance and deindustrialization in other countries. Shocks include things like the pandemic and energy shortage (partly due to the Russia - Ukraine war). Fragilities are underlying fragilities that make the shocks so powerful, like high indebtedness of countries. Topics discussed in the podcast include deglobalization, inflation, economic bubbles, the future potential of India and other Asian countries in the global marketplace, the revitalization of domestic manufacturing, Biden's foreign policy agenda and blue-collar labor concerns, economic forces that allowed the rise of populists like Trump, and predictions for the global future.
What's a podcast club?
It's like a book club for podcasts. Each week we discuss an interesting and currently relevant episode from podcasters like Ezra Klein, Michael Shermer, or Russ Roberts. We start off as a large group and spend most of the time talking in small break-out groups, which we remix 3 times over the course of the evening. Our conversations are casual and open. We encourage everyone to speak freely, respectfully, and concisely. To do this, we try to adhere to Grice's Maxims: https://bit.ly/2p4uSQm
Ultimately, the idea is to help each other think a little differently, learn a thing or two and have some fun.