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The TruthThe Middle Class Is COLLAPSING. Fascism Could Be NextRising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War. On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, and author of ‘Escape From Capitalism: Economics Is Political and Other Liberating Truths’. Mattei’s PhD was on the relationship between austerity and fascism in inter-war Italy, and her book is a comparative study of Britain and It...
2026-03-271h 20
This Is Hell!2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Escape from Capitalism / Claire MatteiWhile Chuck is away for the week to endure the torture of physical therapy, we revisit your favorite interviews of 2026 so far. In this episode, we revisit your most-suggested interview, Chuck's January 27th conversation with Clara Mattei. Clara is professor of economics at The University of Tulsa and the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. She joined us to discuss her new book, "Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention,” from Simon & Shuster.
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2026-03-2559 min
FREE with Clara MatteiWhy the Wealth Tax Debate Misses the Real Problem | Bob Lord, Patriotic MillionairesEconomist Clara Mattei and tax attorney Bob Lord expose how the US tax code was engineered to build the billionaire oligarchy — and why wealth taxes alone won't fix it.Bob Lord, senior vice president for tax policy at the Patriotic Millionaires and 35-year tax attorney, joins Clara Mattei to break down the mechanics of wealth inequality hiding inside the US tax code — from capital gains and unrealized income to regressive taxation, Social Security caps, and how billionaires legally avoid taxes for decades.The top 0.00001% of Americans — just 19 people — made nearly $1 trillion per year for the past two years. That's not just...
2026-03-1857 min
FREE with Clara MatteiSudan War Profits: UAE Gold, US WeaponsSudan’s war is being framed as “tribal conflict,” while a profit system extracts gold and moves US weapons through regional pipelines.Human rights lawyer Suad Abdel Aziz (Executive Director, Decolonizing Sudan) explains who benefits, how it works, and what people in the US can do now.In this episode:• UAE gold extraction, smuggling networks, and conflict, resource supply chains• US weapons exports to the UAE and how they reach the RSF (Rapid Support Forces)• Red Sea ports, proxy warfare, and the geopolitical stakes• How sanctions and economic pressure helped set the stage• Practical next steps: UAE arms embargo pressure + boyco...
2026-03-1828 min
Novara Media PodcastsDownstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara MatteiRising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War.
On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, and author of ‘Escape From Capitalism: Economics Is Political and Other Liberating Truths’. Mattei’s PhD was on the relationship between austerity and fascism in inter-war Italy, and her book is a comparative study...
2026-03-161h 20Novara MediaDownstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara MatteiRising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War.
On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, and author of ‘Escape From Capitalism: Economics Is Political and Other Liberating Truths’. Mattei’s PhD was on the relationship between austerity and fascism in inter-war Italy, and her book is a comparative study...
2026-03-161h 20Downstream – Novara Media PodcastsDownstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara MatteiRising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War.
On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, and author of ‘Escape From Capitalism: Economics Is Political and Other Liberating Truths’. Mattei’s PhD was on the relationship between austerity and fascism in inter-war Italy, and her book is a comparative study...
2026-03-161h 20
Novara MediaDownstream: The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next w/ Clara MatteiRising unemployment, increased military spending, and a decline in living standards for most people, including the middle class: the description fits both the 1930s and the 2020s. In the 1930s, it was a situation that morphed into the destruction and horror of the Second World War.
On Downstream with Aaron Bastani this week is Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, and author of ‘Escape From Capitalism: Economics Is Political and Other Liberating Truths’. Mattei’s PhD was on the relationship between austerity and fascism in inter-war Italy, and her book is a comparative study of Britain and It...
2026-03-161h 20
The Majority Report with Sam Seder3596 - Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara MatteiIt's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report On today's program: The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles. After Donald Trump called for Iran's "unconditional surrender," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump takes to Truth Social to claim to essentially claim victory in Iran in a quintessential confused post...
2026-03-091h 26
Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27Majority Report3/9 Raining Death on Iranians to Free Them; Escape from Capitalism w/ Clara Mattei (M)FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/p44xkzwr01I?...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report
On today's program:
The U.S. struck oil facilities around Tehran, Iran, an attack that has triggered an environmental disaster. With massive fuel depots burning, rain mixed with soot and petroleum residue is now falling over the city, leaving a toxic, oily film across streets, buildings, and vehicles.
After Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the term simply means whatever Trump says it means. Trump...
2026-03-092h 27
FREE with Clara MatteiThe AI Data Center Gold Rush: The Bailout State Behind ItAI data centers are swallowing trillions, and many are calling it an AI bubble. This episode asks a sharper question: who absorbs the risk, and who pays when the bet breaks?We follow the engine underneath the hype, the state, the Federal Reserve, tech monopolies, and finance, working together to turn a risky AI bet into protected wins, while shifting the costs onto workers, retirees, communities, and the climate.In this conversation, Clara Mattei is joined by Irai Regmi (writer of Radical Transitions; former researcher at the Roosevelt Institute) to map the machinery behind the boom:• What AI data ce...
2026-02-251h 04
PoliticsJOE PodcastCapitalism is a trap - and you can't get out | Clara Mattei interviewAva sits down with economist Clara Mattei to explore a bold and unsettling idea: capitalism isn’t failing - it’s functioning exactly as intended.Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2026-02-2234 min
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-MurthyClara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforcedClara Mattei is an economist who wants us to rethink the idea that capitalism is simply the natural order of things.She is an author and professor of economics whose work explores how economic ideas become tools of power, shaping policy while masking the political decisions beneath. Her new book, Escape from Capitalism, argues that many of the problems that we see as inevitable - poverty, unemployment, inflation - are built into the system and shored up by models and theories designed to convince us that there is no alternative.On this episode o...
2026-02-1337 min
FREE with Clara MatteiWho Profits From Climate Solutions? Green Colonialism ExplainedGreen colonialism is when “climate solutions” become a new extraction economy, land grabs, debt, and profit, dressed in green. Who profits, who pays, and what does climate justice require?In this episode, Clara Mattei speaks with Hamza Hamouchene, North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute and editor of Dismantling Green Colonialism.Together, they unpack how colonialism, imperial power, and fossil capitalism shape the climate crisis and the politics of the green transition — and why liberation and climate justice are inseparable in practice.In this conversation:• Green colonialism, in plain terms• Why mainstream climate policy keeps circling market solutions, and why em...
2026-02-101h 00
FREE with Clara MatteiEscape from Capitalism | Clara Mattei & Richard WolffEconomics is political. The “neutral” rules of the economy shape who has power, who gets protected, You can vote, work hard, do everything “right”, and still feel stuck. That’s not a personal failure, it’s how the system is built.In this special episode, economist Clara E. Mattei joins Richard D. Wolff to discuss her new book Escape from Capitalism, and how power hides inside “normal” economic rules, wages, debt, taxes, and public budgets.This is a sharp, accessible conversation about why economics is political, how “freedom” can mask coercion, and what it takes to build real democratic power.In this conver...
2026-02-0636 min
FREE with Clara MatteiVulture Capitalism: Empire, Bailouts, Monopoly Power | Grace BlakeleyGrace Blakeley joins Clara Mattei to break down how capitalism is actually organized: corporate planning, state power, backdoor bailouts, and imperial extraction that protects profitability.In this conversation, we unpack:• How corporations plan production, labor, and supply chains• How governments enforce the capital order through policy, bailouts, and rules• Why competition gets harsher for everyone without power• What democratic planning can look like, participatory budgeting, co ops, local organizing• How organizing rebuilds agency in a system built to produce disempowermentGrace Blakeley is the author of Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom.🔔 Subscribe to FREE (Forum for Rea...
2026-01-2851 min
This Is Hell!How Humanity Needs To Be Rescued From Capitalism / Clara E. MatteiClara E. Mattei, a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa. She is the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (https://www.freefreeforum.org/)—and the author of "The Capital Order”, which was praised by The Financial Times as one of the ten best economics books of 2022 and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Clara joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book, "Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention”, by Simon & Shuster. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Escape-from-Capitalism/Clara-E-Mattei/9781668085141
We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be...
2026-01-271h 21This Is Hell!How Humanity Needs To Be Rescued From Capitalism / Clara E. MatteiClara E. Mattei, a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa. She is the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (https://www.freefreeforum.org/)—and the author of "The Capital Order”, which was praised by The Financial Times as one of the ten best economics books of 2022 and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Clara joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book, "Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention”, by Simon & Shuster. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Escape-from-Capitalism/Clara-E-Mattei/9781668085141
We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be...
2026-01-271h 21
FREE with Clara MatteiHunger Is the Point: The Capitalist Food System Explained | Raj PatelWe grow enough food to feed everyone, yet hunger keeps rising. Raj Patel explains how the capitalist food system produces “cheap food”, making hunger predictable, and profitable.In this conversation, we start with one unforgettable symbol, the chicken nugget, and use it to expose the “nugget economy”, how costs get pushed onto workers, land, health, and the climate so corporations can sell food that looks “cheap” at the register.If you have ever wondered how we can have full shelves and empty stomachs at the same time, this episode gives you the mechanism, clearly.🔔 Subscribe to FREE (Forum for Real Economic E...
2026-01-2156 minFREE with Clara MatteiInflation & the Cost of Living Crisis: Who Pays, Who’s Protected?Inflation & the cost of living crisis are not just numbers on a chart, they are political choices about who gets squeezed and who is protected.In this SAPE lecture, economists Paulo dos Santos (The New School for Social Research) and Ramaa Vasudevan (Colorado State University) unpack today’s inflation as a social and political phenomenon. They trace how supply shocks, corporate profits, and central bank decisions turn wages, debt, and rising prices into a cost of living crisis and what a fairer response could look like.📘 Organized by SOAS/School of London in partnership with...
2026-01-1341 min
Haymarket Books LiveNeoliberalism, Fascism, and the Order of Capital: Spectre Issue 12 LaunchHow do we understand the new authoritarianism that has emerged in the context of global instabilities, trade wars, imperial rivalries, and political polarization? Is neoliberalism being replaced by authoritarianism or welded to it? Join Clara Mattei and David McNally for a discussion of these issues explored in the new issue of Spectre Journal. Speakers: Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and the President of FREE: Forum for Real Economic Emancipation. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
2026-01-121h 21
FREE with Clara MatteiHousing Crisis: Why Wall Street Keeps Homes Empty & Rents HighWall Street, banks, and corporate landlords have found a way to make more money from empty homes than from housing people. That’s why your rent keeps going up while whole buildings sit dark.In this conversation, economist Clara Mattei and urbanist Miguel Robles-Durán unpack how the modern housing crisis is driven by the financialization of housing. They explain how banks, asset managers, and corporate landlords turned homes into collateral and global investment vehicles, why empty apartments can be more profitable than housing people, and why the usual answers like “just build more supply” do not fix a system...
2026-01-0845 min
Directions: Navigating Beyond-GDP FuturesExploring the fallacy of the capitalist economic system with Clara MatteiIn this episode, together with Professor Clara Mattei Professor of Economics at The University of Tulsa and President of FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation), we unpack the limits of economic growth and the deep structural failures of our current economic system. We also explore the inputs that are needed to trigger a systemic change towards a new concept of productivity and sustainability transition.Directions – Navigating Beyond GDP Futures is a podcast series that explores the interconnections between economic growth, human flourishing, and sustainability. The podcast is produced under the framework of the...
2026-01-0811 min
Explaining HistoryFascism, Austerity, and the Class War in 1920s ItalyEpisode Summary:In this episode of Explaining History, Nick explores the neglected connection between economic austerity and political repression in the early years of Fascist Italy.Drawing on the groundbreaking work of economist Clara Mattei, we delve into how Mussolini's regime used budget cuts, regressive taxation, and mass layoffs not just to balance the books, but to crush the Italian working class. We examine the "Two Red Years" (Biennio Rosso) that terrified the bourgeoisie and how Fascism was welcomed by liberal elites as a necessary tool to restore order and protect private capital.F...
2025-12-3032 minExplaining HistoryFascism, Austerity, and the Class War in 1920s ItalyEpisode Summary:In this episode of Explaining History, Nick explores the neglected connection between economic austerity and political repression in the early years of Fascist Italy.Drawing on the groundbreaking work of economist Clara Mattei, we delve into how Mussolini's regime used budget cuts, regressive taxation, and mass layoffs not just to balance the books, but to crush the Italian working class. We examine the "Two Red Years" (Biennio Rosso) that terrified the bourgeoisie and how Fascism was welcomed by liberal elites as a necessary tool to restore order and protect private capital.F...
2025-12-3032 min
FREE with Clara MatteiWhy the Climate Crisis Still Makes Sense Under Capitalism | Andreas MalmIn this full interview on the climate crisis, capitalism, and fossil fuels, journalist and academic Andreas Malm (How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Overshoot) joins economist Clara Mattei on the FREE Podcast to explain why capitalism keeps expanding fossil fuels, war, and risky climate “tech fixes” even as global warming passes critical limits.In this video, you’ll learn:• Why fossil fuel expansion keeps growing in the US, Europe, and the Global North after 1.5°C• How banks, asset managers, and sunk costs lock us into “business as usual” fossil fuel infrastructure• How the fossil economy is tied to militarism, colonialism, Gaza...
2025-11-2232 min
FREE with Clara MatteiMass Incarceration: What You’re Not Supposed to KnowAmerica didn’t stumble into mass incarceration: it starved security (housing, healthcare, income support, childcare, mental health care) and funded punishment (policing, surveillance, prosecution, long sentences) to keep people insecure, compliant, and controllable — and to protect wealth & power.In the United States, poverty, trauma, and even basic survival are treated as crimes and the response our government funds is punishment, not care. This live forum brings together economist John Clegg, organizer aurelius miles francisco, and Lacreshia Jackson a mother who survived incarceration to explain how that happened, who benefits, and what real safety could look like instead.Economist John Cleg...
2025-11-061h 14
FREE with Clara MatteiThe Business of Poverty: How the System Profits from Homelessness“It’s not a crime to be poor — but in America, it’s becoming one.”Economist Clara Mattei sits down with housing organizer Rob Robinson to expose how poverty has been turned into a business model — and why capitalism depends on keeping people poor.From unaffordable rents and the “shelter industry” to laws that criminalize homelessness, this conversation reveals a system that punishes people for being poor while rewarding those who profit from their suffering.🔹 How the U.S. made homelessness a business worth billions🔹 The truth behind “shelter non-profits” and poverty profiteering🔹 Why public housing was dismantled — and what could replace it🔹 The Supr...
2025-10-231h 02
FREE with Clara MatteiCapitalism, War & Reconstruction: An Adam Tooze AnalysisIn this illuminating conversation, renowned historian Adam Tooze joins economist Clara Mattei to dissect the complex political economy of war and reconstruction. They explore how cycles of destruction and rebuilding can create profitable opportunities, moving beyond any single conflict to analyze broader patterns of capitalism. In this conversation:• The economic dynamics of post-conflict reconstruction and "peace plans."• How profit models can be built into both destruction and rebuilding.• The growing role of technocracy, AI governance, and the illusion of expertise.• The intersection of austerity, militarism, and the global cycle of profit through catastrophe. About the SpeakersAdam Tooze: Author of Crashed...
2025-10-0851 min
The Home FrontImagination and Emancipation with Clara MatteiToday, host Reed Galen speaks with Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa and President of The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, about her work on economic emancipation and the historical context of capitalism and fascism.
They discuss the unique economic landscape of Tulsa, the interconnection between economic and political emancipation, and the need for a new understanding of economic models that empower rather than disempower individuals.
Clara emphasizes the importance of community building and solidarity in addressing economic issues and imagines a future where people can reclaim their humanity through...
2025-09-3048 min
FREE with Clara MatteiCapitalism Didn’t Replace Slavery, It Scaled It | David McNallyWhat if slavery wasn’t America’s past, but capitalism’s business model?Historian David McNally (author of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History) joins economist Clara Mattei to uncover how plantation slavery powered global capitalism, why coercion (not “free markets”) is the system’s core, and how exploitation survives today through austerity and war, from the shop floor to Gaza. We explore:• Slavery as modern business, the roots of today’s exploitation• Enslaved people’s stolen labor as the engine of modern wealth• Why “innovation” means faster extraction of unpaid labor• Austerity as state-enforced market dependence• Militarism as permanent demand (and profi...
2025-09-2457 min
FREE with Clara MatteiCapitalism & Slavery: The Truth They Don’t Teach You | David McNally & Clara MatteiWhat if capitalism didn’t replace slavery, what if it scaled it? This talk uncovers how plantation slavery powered global capitalism, why “legal corruption” is written into the rules, and how austerity and militarism keep exploitation alive today. Economist David McNally, Clara Mattei, and Rep. Michelle McCane reveal why the system is rotten at its core, and why freedom has always been won from below, not gifted from above.❤️ Subscribe for more conversations on democracy, justice, and economic emancipation: https://youtube.com/@FreeFreeForum 📌 Watch, share, and join the FREE Forum: https://freefreeforum.org 📖 Learn more in David McNally’s new book Slavery a...
2025-09-1758 min
FREE with Clara MatteiLegal Corruption: How Power Really Works | Camila Vergara & Clara MatteiCorruption isn’t a scandal, it’s the law.Economist Clara Mattei and political theorist Camila Vergara expose how our democracy is designed to protect the wealthy. The constitution itself sets the rules of the game, rules that funnel power upward, reproduce inequality, and leave people powerless.This is legal corruption: not against the law, but because of the law. From elections that don’t change power to laws that put profit over people, they show why inequality isn’t an accident, it’s intentional.👉 If you’ve ever wondered why democracy feels broken, why the 1% keeps winning, and why real change...
2025-09-031h 04
FREE with Clara MatteiDemocracy from Below: How to Defeat Oligarchy | Camila Vergara & Clara MatteiWhy does democracy feel powerless against billionaires, war, and corruption?We all feel it: democracy doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. The wealth of the few grows, while the majority struggles to survive. Wars rage, children starve, and our voices barely register.In this first FREE Forum event, political theorist Camila Vergara and economist Clara Mattei expose how oligarchy isn’t an accident, it’s built into the rules of our system.From famine in Gaza to the concentration of wealth in the U.S., they show why oligarchy thrives, and how democracy from below can defeat i...
2025-08-2746 minFREE with Clara MatteiMilitarism, Capitalism & Austerity: The Hidden Trinity of PowerWhy do endless wars, austerity, and genocide continue — even when people everywhere demand peace and justice? This video explains the deep economic logic behind militarism, showing how capitalism and austerity are structurally tied to war spending.Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s warning against indifference, the talk reveals how profit motives fuel violence in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond, while governments prioritize arms industries and surveillance over human needs. From record-breaking military budgets to soaring weapons stock prices, we connect the dots between economic structures and systemic violence — and why young generations are demanding divestment.This is part of FREE: The Forum...
2025-08-2112 min
FREE with Clara MatteiRichard Wolff: Why Capitalism Can’t Give Us EqualityEconomists Clara Mattei and Richard D. Wolff break down why capitalism has failed to deliver on its promises of liberty, equality, and democracy. From the hidden coercion of the labor market to the politics of inflation and unemployment, they expose how the system sustains inequality — and explore how worker cooperatives could offer a real path to economic emancipation.📚 Richard Wolff’s latest book: Understanding CapitalismCheck out: @democracyatwrk & https://www.democracyatwork.info/🎙️ Learn more about FREE at: https://freefreeforum.org#richardwolff #democracyatwork #capitalism #marxism #inflation
2025-08-131h 25
FREE with Clara MatteiWeaponizing Economics: A Critical Look at the Political Economy of PalestineIn this episode of the FREE (Forum for Real Economic Emancipation) podcast, hosts Claire and Professor Ibrahim Shikaki, an associate professor of economics at Trinity College and an expert on the political economy of Palestine, delve into the economic dimensions of the crisis in the region. They discuss Professor Shikaki's paper, "Weaponizing Economics Against Palestine," and explore how economics as a discipline can mystify the true nature of events. The conversation uses dependency theory as a framework to explain how the Global North's wealth is built on the systemic extraction of resources from the Global South.Key...
2025-08-061h 13
FREE with Clara MatteiAusterity: What They Don't Want You to Know About Our Economy | a FREE ExplainerWhy is austerity always the answer, and who does it really serve?In this explainer, economist Clara Mattei, executive director of the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (FREE), breaks down the political logic of austerity, not as a budgeting mistake, but as a tool of systemic control. From slashed food stamps to rising interest rates, from military expansion to mass unemployment, austerity isn’t about scarcity. It’s about power.Mattei reveals how fiscal, monetary, and industrial austerity function together to keep the majority dependent on markets, wages, and private capital — all while funneling wealth to the...
2025-07-3115 minFREE with Clara MatteiThe Free Market Is a Myth | FREE Podcast with Clara MatteiWelcome to FREE: The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation.In our first episode, Clara Mattei dismantles one of the biggest myths in economics: the idea of a “free market.”We dive deep into:✔ Why the free market is a myth and what really sustains it✔ How inequality isn’t an accident, but part of the system’s design✔ Why mainstream economics keeps us powerlessClara also reflects on her conversation with Jon Stewart and why knowledge must serve change—not protect the status quo.📌 Subscribe for more conversations on economic justice, democracy, and building a future beyond austerity.https://freefreeforum.org#FREEForum #clar...
2025-07-2319 min
JACOBIN PodcastWie Austerität die britische Revolution von 1919 ausbremste – von Clara Mattei
1919 war Großbritannien kurz davor, seine Kohleindustrie in demokratische Verwaltung durch die Bergarbeiter zu übergeben. Doch die Erfindung der Austerität verhinderte den gesellschaftlichen Aufbruch. Ein Auszug aus »Die Ordnung des Kapitals« von Clara Mattei.
Artikel vom 30. Juni 2025: https://jacobin.de/artikel/austeritaet-grossbritannien-kohleindustrie-vergesellschaftung-clara-mattei
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2025-07-0626 min
JACOBIN PodcastWie Austerität die britische Revolution von 1919 ausbremste – von Clara Mattei1919 war Großbritannien kurz davor, seine Kohleindustrie in demokratische Verwaltung durch die Bergarbeiter zu übergeben. Doch die Erfindung der Austerität verhinderte den gesellschaftlichen Aufbruch. Ein Auszug aus »Die Ordnung des Kapitals« von Clara Mattei. Artikel vom 30. Juni 2025: https://jacobin.de/artikel/austeritaet-grossbritannien-kohleindustrie-vergesellschaftung-clara-mattei Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch...
2025-07-0626 min
DevenirEl camino al fascismo está enlosado con políticas de austeridadRed MMT
Debate con Andrés Villena y Rafel Carretero sobre el libro de Clara Mattei, "El orden del Capital.
Cómo los economistas inventaron la austeridad y pavimentaron el camino hacia el fascismo" (https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Order-..., traducido al castellano como "El orden del capital. Cómo los economistas inventaron la austeridad y allanaron el camino al fascismo" (https://capitanswing.com/libros/el-or.... Clara Mattei C es una economista italiana, especializada en la historia del capitalismo y la interacción entre las teorías económicas y la formulación de políticas tecnocráticas. Es profesora de Economía...
2025-07-0454 min
Emancipations PodcastThe Roots of Austerity and 20th Century Fascism (feat. Clara Mattei)My guest Clara Mattei has written about austerity’s dark intellectual origins in her important new book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way for Fascism. We discuss the main ideas of this book and how the historical roots of austerity emerge as a response by the ruling class to the social democratic gains of the working class following the First World War in Europe. At the core of Dr. Mattei's book is a powerful lesson for the left, namely that conditions of economic austerity have the tendency to sap the political resolve of the wo...
2025-06-241h 08
Future HistoriesS03E36 - Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian LiberalismClara E. Mattei on the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.
Clara's book is out in German! Find it here:
Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.
https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals
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2025-04-1355 min
SPERI Presents...Crisis Point: Austerity w/ Clara MatteiAusterity has dominated Western politics since the 2008 financial crisis, but where did it come from? And why has it proved so enduring as a response to capitalist crises (real or perceived) despite appearing so unpopular? Has the nature of austerity changed over time as capitalism develops? Or does it retain a fundamental character across space and time?Clara Mattei is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Heterodox Economics at The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to discuss austerity as an elite strategy throughout capitalism's history from the...
2025-03-2737 minSPERI Presents...Crisis Point: Austerity w/ Clara MatteiAusterity has dominated Western politics since the 2008 financial crisis, but where did it come from? And why has it proved so enduring as a response to capitalist crises (real or perceived) despite appearing so unpopular? Has the nature of austerity changed over time as capitalism develops? Or does it retain a fundamental character across space and time?Clara Mattei is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Heterodox Economics at The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to discuss austerity as an elite strategy throughout capitalism's history from the...
2025-03-2737 min
Che domande!4. Siamo soli?Rispondono alla domanda il neurologo Vittorio Gallese, la scrittrice Chiara Valerio, lo scrittore Georgi Gospodinov, l'economista Clara Mattei e il ricercatore in psicologia sociale Gianpaolo Contestabile.
2025-03-2027 min
JACOBIN PodcastDen Konsens der Austerität durchbrechen – von Clara Mattei
Viele wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Institute halten sklavisch an den Dogmen des freien Marktes fest. Ein neues Forschungszentrum will dem ein Ende setzen und Ökonomen ausbilden, die sich weigern, ein System zu verteidigen, das nur wenigen dient.
Viele wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Institute halten sklavisch an den Dogmen des freien Marktes fest. Ein neues Forschungszentrum will dem ein Ende setzen und Ökonomen ausbilden, die sich weigern, ein System zu verteidigen, das nur wenigen dient.
Artikel vom 05. März 2025: https://jacobin.de/artikel/clara-mattei-heterodoxe-oekonomie-austeritaet-wirtschaftswissenschaft
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2025-03-0907 min
JACOBIN TalksWie Austeritätspolitik den Faschismus hervorbringt | mit Clara Mattei
Die Ökonomin Clara Mattei hat mit ihrem Buch »Die Ordnung des Kapitals« eine herausragende Studie verfasst. Mattei zeigt, wie die Austeritätspolitik nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einem weltweiten technokratischen Projekt wurde, um den Kapitalismus alternativlos zu machen und seine internen Klassenbeziehungen zu zementieren. Sie sprach bei Jacobin Talks mit Matthias Ubl darüber, wie Austerität den Faschismus hervorbringt.
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2025-02-1231 min
Economic Update with Richard D. WolffNew Economics Institute with Clara MatteiIn this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff delves into the heroic efforts of California firefighters and their extraordinary work in battling the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. We also explore the progressive transformations occurring within U.S. labor unions and shed light on the escalating housing affordability crisis across the United States. Additionally, we interview Professor Clara Mattei, Director of the newly established Center for Heterodox Economics in Oklahoma. Professor Mattei shares details about this groundbreaking initiative, outlining its goals, mission, and activities, as well as how it distinguishes itself from mainstream economic approaches.
2025-02-0432 minEconomic Update with Richard D. WolffNew Economics Institute with Clara MatteiIn this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff delves into the heroic efforts of California firefighters and their extraordinary work in battling the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. We also explore the progressive transformations occurring within U.S. labor unions and shed light on the escalating housing affordability crisis across the United States. Additionally, we interview Professor Clara Mattei, Director of the newly established Center for Heterodox Economics in Oklahoma. Professor Mattei shares details about this groundbreaking initiative, outlining its goals, mission, and activities, as well as how it distinguishes itself from mainstream economic approaches.
2025-02-0432 min
Macro N CheeseEp 313 - CHE with Clara Mattei“We need to understand the limits of capitalism. Capitalism has serious limits in the sense that it puts exchange value over use value. And this is by definition irrational according to logic of need, but very rational according to logic of profit... But we also need to understand that we are the ones who have produced the system. That's where the empowering voice comes out, because it says, okay, if we have created it, we can also change it. And guess what? The system is really fragile. That's why we need austerity constantly to protect it.”...
2025-02-0139 min
Às Páginas Tantas - Rádio Morabeza"Dedico-lhe o Meu Silêncio", de Mario Vargas Llosa “A Ordem do Capital: Como Economistas Inventaram a Austeridade e Abriram Caminho Para o Fascismo” de Clara Mattei - Sugestões de leitura da Livraria SementeNo "Ás Páginas Tantas" desta semana, Daniel Brito traz duas propostas de leitura: "Dedico-lhe o Meu Silêncio" - o novo romance de Varga Llosa o devolve aos terrenos da utopia; desta vez, com a música peruana como fio condutor. O protagonista da história, Toño Azpilcueta, é especialista em «música crioula» e descobre um violonista, Lalo Molfino (personagem de Travessuras da Menina Má). O talento do violonista revive o amor de Toño pelas valsas, marineras, polcas e huaynitos, peças enraizadas na música popular do país. Considerado pelo Financial Times um dos melhores...
2024-10-2905 minThe Maggie Daun ShowAusterity and Protecting IVF (Hour 2)The Maggie Daun Show is joined by Clara Mattei; Professor of Economics and Director of the CHE, Center for Heterodox Economics, of The University of Tulsa Oklahoma. Maggie and Clara discuss "austerity" and what it means for the working and middle class of the United States.
Then, Maggie is joined by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin who stops by the show during her campaign for re-election. Senator Baldwin talks about the efforts in Washington to protect IVF treatments for folks in Wisconsin and around the nation trying to use the method to start their families.
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2024-09-2744 min
JACOBIN PodcastWie Liberale lernten Mussolini zu lieben – von Clara E. Mattei
Artikel vom 03. März 2023: https://jacobin.de/artikel/wie-liberale-lernten-mussolini-zu-lieben-faschismus-austeritaet-sparpolitik-lohnabbau-clara-mattei
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2024-09-0817 minEconomic Update with Richard D. WolffCapitalism, Today's World Economy and Gaza with Clara MatteiOn this week's program, we question the effectiveness as well as the economics of US sanctions (Economic Warfare), also the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) endorses the United Auto Workers (UAW) plan of setting all union contracts to expire on May 1, 2028, essentially laying the groundwork for a "General Strike". We also highlight the latest rhetoric from the US Chamber of Commerce's declaration of a "labor shortage" which only masks their desire for government help in procuring more workers without having to offer higher pay and better working conditions to overcome the "phony" labor shortage. Finally, we Interview P...
2024-08-1331 minEconomic Update with Richard D. WolffCapitalism, Today's World Economy and Gaza with Clara MatteiOn this week's program, we question the effectiveness as well as the economics of US sanctions (Economic Warfare), also the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) endorses the United Auto Workers (UAW) plan of setting all union contracts to expire on May 1, 2028, essentially laying the groundwork for a "General Strike". We also highlight the latest rhetoric from the US Chamber of Commerce's declaration of a "labor shortage" which only masks their desire for government help in procuring more workers without having to offer higher pay and better working conditions to overcome the "phony" labor shortage. Finally, we Interview P...
2024-08-1331 min
OttolinaTVEcco il fascismo 2.0-perché dobbiamo preoccuparci della nuova svolta autoritaria ft. Clara Mattei
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La guerra sta imponendo alle società occidentali una nuova svolta statalista e autoritaria che possa legittiamare nuove economie e politiche di guerra. Quanto possiamo capire dall’ascesa del fascismo in Italia negli anni ‘20, per prevedere le prossime mosse del capitale? Ne abbiamo parlato con Clara Mattei, professoressa alla
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2024-07-3131 min
OttolinaTVLE RADICI DELL'AUSTERITÀ - l'economia del fascismo
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Oggi vi proponiamo il panel "L'economia del fascismo", che si è tenuto in occasione di Fest8lina.
Ospiti di Fabio Perrone (Paese Reale) che ha moderato il dibattito, Marco Bertilorenzi e in collegamento dagli Stati Uniti, l'economista Clara Mattei.
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2024-07-2555 min
Markets à PortuguesaEP 69 | Austeridade e polarização, Desertificação, Santa Casa e NFT's, EUA abrandam | 843169No menu desta semana falamos de :
A Comunicação Social e a Indústria do Pessimismo;
Investimento da Santa Casa em NFT's;
A Desertificação é um problema?;
Existem casas suficientes em Portugal?;
Portugal tem o investimento público mais baixo da Zona Euro;
Existe relação entre a austeridade e a extrema-direita?
O que defendem os defensores de MMT?;
Assembleia Geral da Berkshire Hathaway;
O melhor investidor de todos os tempos;
Mercado laboral americano começa a enfraquecer;
FTX e o sistema judicial americano.
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EQUALS: Reimagining Our EconomyAUSTERITY: A WEAPON TO DISCIPLINE THE PUBLIC? - with Dr. Clara MatteiMax and Nafkote interview the brilliant Dr. Clara Mattei on the history of austerity and how it was created to maintain “the capital order”. Austerity today the world over remains a favored tool of policymakers. And yet it is far more than just a policy. We examine the roots of austerity and its fundamental role in entrenching capital, and disciplining people to never dare to create alternative economic systems. Dr. Clara Mattei is Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of The Capital Orde...
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Pitchfork Economics with Nick HanauerHow Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (with Clara Mattei)We already know that many mainstream economists advocate against the economic interests of the majority of working Americans and for the benefit of a tiny handful of super-rich people and corporations. But Clara Mattei argues that economists are actually guilty of something even more insidious: By promoting austerity measures that destabilize working people and consolidate wealth and power at the very top of the income scale, economists have created the perfect conditions for fascism to take root around the world. Is it too late to rebuild our democratic institutions through a new economic understanding?...
2023-12-1247 min
Kapitalet331: Vad händer när stater stramar åt?"Åtstramning" har blivit vänsterns boogie man – begreppet som ska förklara allt dåligt som händer med den ekonomiska politiken. Clara Mattei har inte bara spårat var den kommer ifrån – hon vill också ge en förklaring till vad denna åtstramning egentligen åstadkommer.
2023-12-0425 min
Otto e mezzoOtto e Mezzo - 07/11/2023Ospiti di Lilli Gruber: Clara Mattei, Italo Bocchino, Lucio Caracciolo, Marco Travaglio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-0734 min
PubblicaPubblica di martedì 07/11/2023La questione palestinese, prima del 7 ottobre 2023. E’ passato un mese dall’attacco terroristico senza precedenti di Hamas contro Israele, con il massacro di circa 1400 persone e la presa di oltre 200 ostaggi. Un mese durante il quale l’aviazione militare israeliana a caccia di leader di Hamas ha lasciato cadere i propri ordigni su migliaia di civili palestinesi: sono oltre diecimila le vittime. Perchè la questione palestinese era finita in un cono d’ombra prima del 7 ottobre? E ora che è tragicamente tornata ad essere illuminata dalle stragi in corso è ancora un collante per i paesi del Medio Oriente? Che conseguenze avrà questa guerr...
2023-11-0725 min
FestiValori 2023Non siamo condannati a morire capitalistiIl modello di sviluppo attuale ha dimostrato di non funzionare.È causa di disuguaglianze crescenti, non è mai stato in grado di risolvere pienamente i problemi di povertà e di distribuzione equa delle risorse. Il mondo accademico da decenni propone numerose alternative, eppure la politica appare impermeabile sia alle richieste di cambiamento della società civile che a quelle di docenti e premi Nobel.Il modello capitalista è riformabile? È sostituibile? E in che modo?ConFabrizio Barca, economistaClara Mattei, economistaModera Andrea Barolini, direttore Valori.it
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Access Top-Rated Audiobook Collection Instantly OnlineThe Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism [Written by Clara E. Mattei]Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695355 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Author: Clara E. Mattei
Narrator: Susan Ericksen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Release date: August 29, 2023
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary: For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. Today, an important question remains: What if solvency was never the goal? In The Capital Order, poli...
2023-08-303h 26
Hauptsache ItalienUnmasking Austerity with Prof. Clara E. MatteiIn this episode, we discuss and unmask the concept of 'austerity' with Prof. Clara E. Mattei, author of "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism." She explains to us the origins, purpose, and effects of austerity and provides a comprehensive perspective on its role in contemporary economics and politics. Learn how politics used austerity to protect big capital and which way it can be ended.Ihr habt Fragen, Anmerkungen oder Themenwünsche? Dann kontaktiert mich gerne via Twitter oder per Mail an Hauptsache.Italien.Podcast@gmail.com
2023-07-1536 min
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: How Austerity Spawns Fascism w/ Clara MatteiClara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism. Edwin Ackerman, author of a recent article for the New Left Review blog, looks at AMLO’s presidency in Mexico.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-07-1053 minPubblicaPubblica di martedì 20/06/2023Tassa minima globale e lotta all’inflazione. Pubblica ha ospitato Tommaso Faccio, docente di Diritto tributario alla Nottingham University Business School e segretario generale della Commissione per la riforma della tassazione delle multinazionali (ICRICT), per fare il punto sulla minimum global tax, l’accordo storico del G7 di due anni fa che aveva un obiettivo impegnativo: far pagare le tasse alle grandi multinazionali che cercano di eluderle. Ospite a Pubblica anche l’economista Clara Mattei (“Operazione austerità. Come gli economisti hanno aperto la strada al fascismo ”, Einaudi 2022). Ha commentato la vicenda di Isabella Weber, economista della University of Massachusetts Amherst e di Harva...
2023-06-2027 min
Rights nowRights now di lunedì 08/05/2023- "I nazisti hanno cominciato ad accanirsi contro i disabili: attenzione quando insultate una persona in difficoltà": Nico Acampora, il fondatore di PizzAut, ha conquistato così la platea dei ragazzi al Festival dei Diritti Umani appena concluso.
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2023-04-291h 23
RevDem PodcastClara Mattei: Why is austerity so persistent in spite of its incapacity to achieve economic growth and balanced budgets?In this interview with RevDem assistant editor Giancarlo Grignaschi, Clara Mattei – Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research – talks about her new book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University
of Chicago Press, 2022). The manuscript explores the historical origins of austerity and its intellectual underpinnings in interwar Britain and Italy. During
this interview, the author presents the main arguments of the book, the comparison between the two countries, the role of politics and the decline in
electoral participation, the relationship between austerity and populism, and the rece...
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2023-04-1857 min
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2023-03-0859 minPopulism Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio ShowThe Real Purpose of The Fed’s Rate Hikes and AusterityThe unchecked power of the Federal Reserve claims its current, never ending rate hike strategy is about curbing inflation. It is not, according to our guest today, economics professor Clara Mattei. That we have become so used to it we
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Macro N CheeseEp 212 - A South American Currency Union? with Daniel ConceiçãoRecent episodes of this podcast have looked at the many ways in which the US attempts to maintain global hegemony through the deep state, the banking system, NATO, and the unholy trinity of the IMF, WTO, and World Bank.This week, Steve talks with Daniel Conceição about the possibility of a supranational currency for Brazil and Argentina. Daniel points out some potential benefits, but it’s hard to avoid comparisons to the Eurozone and the crippling loss of monetary sovereignty. Nevertheless , if successful, such an agreement has far-reaching implications not only for these two nations but pote...
2023-02-181h 01
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2023-01-3042 min
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2023-01-1651 min
El PodcastE15: How Austerity Paved the Road to FascismClara Mattei, economist and author of The Capital Order, argues that austerity is not a neutral economic policy but a tool historically used to suppress working-class power and preserve capitalist order—even under fascism.Guest Bio: Clara E. Mattei is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She earned her PhD in Economics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, and is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.Topics Discussed:The hist...
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Look ForwardThe Invention of Austerity – Clara Mattei and the Capital OrderPolitical Economist and Author Clara Mattei joins the podcast to discuss austerity and her new book, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism," which was recently selected by The Financial Times as one of the best books of 2022.
2022-12-2246 min
New Books in Italian StudiesClara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fas...
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New Books in EconomicsClara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fas...
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New Books in FinanceClara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fas...
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New Books in British StudiesClara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fas...
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The University of Chicago Press PodcastClara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fas...
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Chris Voss PodcastChris Voss Podcast – The Capital Order How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. MatteiThe Capital Order How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these […]
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2022-12-0740 min
Allievi del Collegio Bernardo ClesioCONFERENZIAMO - Intervista a Clara MatteiUn'esplosione di passione ed entusiasmo, Clara Mattei, docente alla New School for Social Research, ci racconta il percorso che l'ha portata dall'Italia a New York, dalla filosofia all'economia. Il suo nuovo libro - "The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (Einaudi, 2022) - sta riscuotendo enorme successo in tutto il panorama internazionale, ma per la prof.ssa Mattei quello che conta è continuare a interrogarsi e a discutere su temi che, inevitabilmente, riguardano la vita di tutti noi.
2022-12-0230 minPubblicaPubblica di martedì 29/11/2022Prendete nota delle frasi seguenti. “Curare le crisi con l'austerità rischia di generare regimi autoritari”. E poi: “l'austerità serve a non mettere in discussione il capitalismo e a reprimere ogni forma di cambiamento sociale”. E ancora: “l'austerità ha come obiettivo quello di stabilizzare il capitale”. Ultima citazione: “l'austerità è tornata”. Sono tutte frasi che descrivono sinteticamente l’esito del lavoro di ricerca dell’economista Clara Mattei, docente di economia alla New School for Social Research di New York. Un lavoro che Mattei ha condensato in un libro dal titolo “Operazione austerità. Come gli economisti hanno aperto la strada al fascismo ” (Einaudi, 2022). Mattei è stata ospite oggi a P
2022-11-2926 min
The ProgressiveThe Trinity of Austerity with Clara Mattei Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Trinity of Austerity with Clara MatteiPub date: 2022-11-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization“Austerity is the best weapon they have to try to convince. And if they can't convince, they can't coerce. So in my book, I say austerity plays with a double strategy: coercion and consensus.”Clara Mattei is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism, published this month. Steve Grumbine, who uses th...
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The Rogue ScholarTRS: Does Capitalism Exist?This may seem like a bizarre topic and yet it may be one of the most revelatory discussions we can have... In light of my recent discussion with Clara Mattei and her book Capital Order.How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, we see the pathway to fascism and the veneer of a capitalist state... but alas... laissez-faire capitalism is a joke... its fake news... the governments allow these relationships and in the end, prove that the very notion of laissez-faire is comical... these are choices. Choices that can be unchosen,... are not natural...
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Macro N CheeseThe Trinity of Austerity with Clara Mattei“Austerity is the best weapon they have to try to convince. And if they can't convince, they can't coerce. So in my book, I say austerity plays with a double strategy: coercion and consensus.”Clara Mattei is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism, published this month. Steve Grumbine, who uses the Twitter display name “Austerity is murder,” was drawn to her position that austerity is not just bad economic theory prescribing bad economic policy. That is a simplistic framing that ultimately depoliticizes austerity.Many on the left tie the birt...
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