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 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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