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Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...
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- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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The circuitous route of an actor. From early training and experience, to the refined differences of acting for stage or screen. It's all about bein...
- Added: Jul 29, 2018
- Length: 01:08:26
President Donald Trump’s tax plan may exacerbate wealth inequity in the US. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute f...
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- Added: Jan 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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What are the secrets to de-cluttering?
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 54:00
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.
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- Added: Jun 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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What exactly are “think tanks” supposed to be thinking about? Are some of them part of a campaign to cast doubt on science when it could interfere ...
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- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 28:30
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Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences.
But, on principles and ...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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Andrew Faas has a new book and a new alliance. The book is "From Bully to Bull's-Eye: Move Your Organization Out of the Line of Fire" and the allia...
- Added: Feb 26, 2017
- Length: 49:16
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...
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- Added: Jan 11, 2017
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The 25-years after World War II were a golden age for much of the world. The end of that era in 1973 brought financial crisis, high unemployment, e...
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- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Tonight we’re speaking with Philip Mirowski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Never Let...
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- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 57:40
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Technology veteran and now author, Antonio García Martínez, discusses his new book, Chaos Monkeys. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacen...
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- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
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Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...
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- Added: May 11, 2016
- Length: 28:59
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Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Ford about his new book, which looks at how new technologies could soon make many jobs obsolete.
- Added: Jan 22, 2016
- Length: 30:37
We’re on the cusp of another revolution: A technology revolution.
This one, however, is vastly different from its predecessor: The industrial revol...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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When you’re given instructions that you feel are morally wrong, do you speak up? A number of studies over the past 50-years conclude that the major...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2015
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Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Facebook is making changes to its privacy policy as of Jan. 1, so we're looking into online privacy from a legal standpoint. Prof. Jane Kirtley, di...
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- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 01:00:21
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