Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics
Invisible Handcuffs is a podcast series and documentary-in-the-making hosted by Katy Shields. It explores how we can free ourselves from the economic ideology driving our crises. Each week, the show speaks with economists, experts, and activists working to reclaim economics across education, academia, policy, and in their communities. Alongside weekly episodes, ad-hoc interviews and reflections from the documentary are also posted.
Episodes
Episode 07: What economists get wrong about risk, technology and progress with Luke Kemp
In what way might economists’ flawed understanding of progress be driving the many risks we face today?
This episode's guest is Luke Kemp, Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk and author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed book Goliath’s Curse, The History and Future of Societal Collapse.
Luke actually trained and worked as a climate economist.
In
Episode 06: How Eurocentrism in economics locks women and the Global South in crisis with Bhumika Muchhala
Our latest episode of Invisible Handcuffs I was delighted to be joined by Bhumika Muchhala, Political Economist and Senior Advisor at Third World Network as well as Part-Time Faculty at The New School.
Our discussion centres on the problem of Eurocentrism in economics, and its impact on a region where neoliberal economics is arguably doing most damage: the Global South.
Eurocentrism refers to t
Episode 05: From Flat-Earth Economics to Social-Ecological Economics with Clive Spash
How can philosophy of science help us in the fight to reclaim economics?
That is the topic of discussion in our latest episode of Invisible Handcuffs, where I was delighted to be joined by leading a social-ecological economist Clive Spash.
This discussion brought a whole new language to problems with economics that I have long sensed, but been unable to put into words.
We delve deep into philos
Episode 04: Building real world economics with Steve Keen
This week we discuss the need to overthrow the current economic paradigm, and what a new one could look like, with Professor Steve Keen.
Steve is a prolific writer, teacher, blogger and vlogger, known as one of few economists to have predicted the global financial crash and a thorn in the side of mainstream or neoclassical economics for over 50 years.
A former professor of economics at Kingston
Episode 03: Why the fight to reclaim economics needs feminist economists with Emma Holten
My guest this week is Emma Holten. Emma is a feminist economist from Denmark and the author of a best-selling book, Deficit.
Feminist economics, as Emma explains, is the study of the unhidden but vital work of ‘reproduction’ - that textured, often unquantifiable work that goes into making everything else in life, including economic life, possible: care, repair, love, friendship, compassion. But,
Episode 02: Why economists need multiple perspectives with John T Harvey
This podcast is all about freeing ourselves from the chains of economic orthodoxy: the set of ideas that drive most decisions in governments, institutions around the world and thus are also underpin our crises.
But where do these ideas come from, and why do they persist? What might alternative schools have to offer? And if such alternative perspectives could offer solutions, why are they not more
Episode 01: On the Fight to Bring Economics into the 21st Century - with Kate Raworth
In this inaugural episode of Invisible Handcuffs, host Katy Shields speaks with economist Kate Raworth, author of 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵.
Doughnut Economics seeks to change not just the goal of our economies - away from endless growth, towards thriving within the planet's limits. It is also a call to transform economics as a discipline. Because mains
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