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New Economics Podcast

@WeeklyEconPod

@NEF’s award-winning podcast about the economic forces shaping our world, with @AyeishaTS and guests.

 New Economics Foundation, UK
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New episode: Should we all be troublemakers at work? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
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New episode: Have we been conned by consultants? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Have we been conned by consultants?

Have we been conned by consultants?

Nurses struggling without PPE, the frantic search for hospital ventilators, even the dreaded ping from NHS test-and-trace. To most of us, these memories represent some of the worst of the Covid pandem

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New episode: How we can all have a home soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we can all have a home

How we can all have a home

You can’t paint your walls, you can’t have a pet, you can’t guarantee you’ll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are paying sky-high rents but struggling to make a home in a hous

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New episode: How we win a new economy - fighting for our human rights soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we win a new economy - fighting for our human rights

How we win a new economy - fighting for our human rights

Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022. This summer, on a small road in south-east London, a crowd of people prevented immigration officers from detaining a local man. Prot

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New episode: How we win a new economy - fixing the housing crisis with social homes soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we win a new economy - fixing the housing crisis with social homes

How we win a new economy - fixing the housing crisis with social homes

Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022. The cost of living scandal could force 1.7 million households into homelessness this winter, according to the charity Crisis. In the

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New episode: How we win a new economy - solving the cost of living and climate crises together soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we win a new economy - solving the cost of living and climate...

How we win a new economy - solving the cost of living and climate...

Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022. 2022: a year of extremes. During the 40 degree summer heat, roads melted and railway lines buckled. The London Fire Brigade had its bus

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New episode: How we win a new economy – a hot strike summer? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we win a new economy – a hot strike summer?

How we win a new economy – a hot strike summer?

Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in August 2022.  As the first week of rail strikes came to an end in June, Google searches for the phrase “join union” had increased by 184%. News ch

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New episode: How we win a new economy - the end of neoliberalism? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
How we win a new economy - the end of neoliberalism?

How we win a new economy - the end of neoliberalism?

In this mini-series of the New Economics Podcast, we’ll discover how our economy has been run over the past few years - and look at the key battlegrounds for those fighting to change the rules. Over

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New episode: What does the Sunak scandal tell us about our tax system? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
What does the Sunak scandal tell us about our tax system?

What does the Sunak scandal tell us about our tax system?

A few weeks ago the chancellor presided over a spring budget which ushered in the fastest drop in living standards on record, as he told us that we “can’t protect everyone”. But this week it was revea

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New episode: The UK's response to the refugee crisis soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
The UK's response to the refugee crisis

The UK's response to the refugee crisis

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, over 4 million people have fled the country. Earlier this month Priti Patel announced a visa application centre had been established en route to Calais for Ukrai

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New episode: Tackling the cost of living crisis soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Tackling the cost of living crisis

Tackling the cost of living crisis

2022 has been dubbed the ‘year of the squeeze’ by the Resolution Foundation. In April, soaring energy bills will collide with tax increases for working people. Last month grocery prices rose at their

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New episode: Tackling the energy crisis soundcloud.com/neweconomicsp… from @NEF
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New episode: Closing the Covid-19 vaccination gap soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Closing the Covid-19 vaccination gap

Closing the Covid-19 vaccination gap

Coronavirus cases are once again rising in Europe and across the world. The World Health Organisation has said that countries shouldn’t be giving out booster jabs for the rest of the year, but in the

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New episode: The future of work soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
The future of work

The future of work

A record number of employees have quit their jobs in recent months, in what’s been dubbed the Great Resignation. Newspapers report that it’s part of post-Covid demand for flexible working and better w

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New episode: Is our digital economy breeding misogyny? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Is our digital economy breeding misogyny?

Is our digital economy breeding misogyny?

In August this year Jake Davison, a 22-year-old from Plymouth, went on a shooting rampage that left six dead, including his mother and himself. In the aftermath it emerged that Davison had been a memb

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New episode: Trans Liberation soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Trans Liberation

Trans Liberation

If you read mainstream media coverage of the issues facing transgender people in the UK, you’ll see a lot of fevered discussion of pronouns, bathroom access, and confusing legislation like the Gender

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New episode: Is austerity back? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
Is austerity back?

Is austerity back?

At the height of the pandemic, politicians promised to do whatever it took to keep the economy going, and introduced emergency support like the furlough scheme. But now those measures have been cut an

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New episode: What really happens at a UN climate summit? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
What really happens at a UN climate summit?

What really happens at a UN climate summit?

In a few weeks’ time, 25,000 people will descend on Glasgow. They are coming for the UN climate summit, also known as Cop26. The delegates might not have the pleasure of sampling the city’s mac-and-ch

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New episode: The Great Homes Upgrade soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
The Great Homes Upgrade

The Great Homes Upgrade

The UK has the draughtiest and oldest housing in Western Europe. And our gas boilers pump out twice as much carbon dioxide as all of the country’s power stations. Do we need to upgrade the UK’s homes

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New episode: Will living standards be frozen this winter? soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomi… from @NEF
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