In Defense of Liberation! (2023-12-10). This Dread and Depression is on Purpose! Don't Fall Victim! Don't Blame Yourselves! podcasters.spotify.com In this episode, I talk about some of the difficulties with remaining positive through a very dehumanizing, morbid, draining, and existential moment that we are all living through today. Whether we are Palestinian, Congolese, Nicaraguan, Cuban, Jamaican, Chinese, indigenous, or so-called American, we are all dealing with the extremes of capitalist, exploitation, extermination campaigns, mass, incarceration, the preponderance of social media, hyper individualism, mental health and climate crisis, and just in general, having to go to school or go to work every day while the world is blowing up around us. What do we…

Prabhat Patnaik (2023-12-09). Pitfalls of export-led growth. mronline.org THE wisdom of pursuing a strategy of export-led growth has been discussed among development economists for at least half a century, ever since the so-called East Asian "miracle" started to be contrasted with the comparatively sluggish growth experience of countries like India that were pursuing, in the World Bank's language, an "inward looking" development strategy.