Exploring the intersection between collective psychology, law and the environment. An AI generated podcast created by feeding academic papers into Google’s NotebookLM.
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Mathew Forstater & Geoffrey Ingham: Tax-Driven Money and Credit Theory of Money
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Notebook LM generated. The Credit Theory posits that money's essence is not as a physical commodity, but as a social relation representing debt/credit. All participants in a monetary system engage in these relations, settled by transferring abstract value. The Tax Driven Money approach, a specific form of credit theory, argues that the government's…
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This AI generated podcast delves into Hobbes' classic treatise on liberty, emphasizing that true freedom isn’t an inherent quality but rather the absence of external constraints. An Obama-esque reflection ties these philosophical concepts to the Founding Fathers, showing how such debates continue to shape American political thought by balancing ind…
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Google Notebook LM generated: This document by Nicholas Kaldor provides an overview of the concept of an expenditure tax, as detailed in the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations' 1974 report. The report examines the historical context, theoretical underpinnings, administrative feasibility, and potential applications of an expenditure …
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Google LM generated:This article examines Max Weber's approach to the Methodenstreit, a late 19th-century debate in economics about methodology. It contrasts Weber's integrated method, which combines historical context, empirical evidence, and theoretical models, with the more deductive and ahistorical views of economists like Carl Menger and Ludwi…
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An 2007 Nation article by Chris Hayes about the current state of the economics discipline read using the Kokoro AI generated voice.By Tschäff
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The Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies
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A Google NotebookLM generated podcast: The Cambridge capital theory controversies debated the validity of neoclassical economics' aggregate production functions and the measurement of capital, ultimately questioning whether the rate of return on capital is determined by its marginal productivity, and whether comparative statics can adequately analy…
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L. Randall Wray: The Value of Money: A Survey of Heterodox Approaches
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Google LM generated podcast: This Levy Economics Institute working paper surveys heterodox economic theories of money's value, rejecting orthodox views linking it solely to scarcity or price levels. The paper integrates several heterodox approaches: reinterpretations of Marx's labour theory of value by Graeber and Foley; Keynes's liquidity preferen…
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Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation
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This excerpt from Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation explores the concept of simulation and its impact on reality. Baudrillard argues that simulation has superseded representation, creating a hyperreal where signs no longer refer to a deeper meaning but exist as self-referential systems.By Tschäff
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Google LM generated: David Graeber explores the concept of "culture as creative refusal," arguing that many cultural forms arise not organically but as conscious rejections of other cultures' values. The essay proposes that understanding history requires recognising these acts of cultural rejection and their ongoing influence. The author ultimately…
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GoogleLM generated podcast. This article argues that using the phrase "taxpayer money" is harmful because it perpetuates a myth that only certain groups of people contribute to society, particularly wealthy, white, and male individuals. The author contends that the phrase reinforces the idea that taxation is theft, and that government spending is s…
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NotebookLM generated podcast: Fascist politics uses nostalgia and fabricated narratives of a glorious past built on “traditional values” to garner support for its authoritarian and hierarchal ideology. TBy Tschäff
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Pavlina Tcherneva: The Case for a Job Guarantee
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A Notebook LM podcast: This paper from the Dr. Tcherneva proposes a policy solution to the problem of involuntary unemployment in the United States: the Job Guarantee. This comprehensive policy document explores the concept, objectives, and design features of the JG program, arguing that it is a superior policy option to the current system of unemp…
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