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  • Monopoly Power and EU Competition Policy — with Angela Wigger

    March 11, 2024 · 59 min

    During the pandemic and its aftermath, the world witnessed a revival of new narratives and strategies related to industrial policy in a geopolitically competitive environment. We invite Angela Wigger to reflect on the history of…

  • Rentierism and Big Pharma — with Nick Dearden

    February 20, 2024 · 60 min

    In this episode we do a deep dive into the realm of Big Pharma. As with Big Tech, this industry epitomises large-scale rentier income extraction by corporations. Despite the industry's assertions that the costs associated with drug…

  • Asset Managers and the Rise of Rentier Capitalism — with Brett Christophers

    February 5, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

    Embark on a journey encompassing Brett Christophers' latest three books in this Crash Course Episode. He provides a comprehensive overview of the ascent of rentier capitalism, observed in diverse forms across political economies, and hones…

  • Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech — with Cory Doctorow

    January 24, 2024 · 59 min

    In this first Crash Course episode of the new series, we invite writer-activist Cory Doctorow to explore the rise of Rentier and Monopoly Capitalism in the tech sector. Is the platform economy in the last phase of what he calls…

  • The future of the EU fiscal framework — with Ludovic Suttor-Sorel

    October 18, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min

    In this special one-off we focus on European fiscal policy, following FiscalMatters' week of debate in which the future of the EU fiscal framework is discussed: “Too often important policy decisions happen behind closed doors. We need an…

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  • Big Tech vs The Public — with Francesca Bria

    June 28, 2021 · 52 min

    Innovation economist and digital policy expert Francesca Bria joins us to talk about her experiences trying to counter the power of Big Tech and using technology for democratic decision making. Bria is the former CTO of the City of…

  • Big Tech & the Global South — with Nandini Chami

    June 8, 2021 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this fourth Crash Course episode of the series on Big Tech, Techno-feudalism and Democracy, we take a closer look at how we could resist the enormous and all-encompassing influence Big Tech and platform economies have on our lives. How…

  • Platforms and the limits of Competition Policy — with Farwa Sial

    May 24, 2021 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this third episode, we discussed the challenges that Big Tech confronts us with in terms of regulation. The platform economy has fundamentally changed our societies and has made more and more citizens dependent on less and less…

  • Intellectual Property & Monopoly Capitalism — with Cecilia Rikap

    May 10, 2021 · 1 hr 4 min

    In this second Crash Course episode of the series on Big Tech, Techno-feudalism and Democracy, we will zoom in on intellectual property. We have invited political economist Cecilia Rikap to explain where intellectual property comes from…

  • The rise of Technoscientific Capitalism with Kean Birch

    April 26, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min

    In this first Crash Course episode of our series on Big Tech, Techno-feudalism and Democracy, we take a bird’s-eye view before we dive into more specific issues in the episodes to come. To introduce you to the topic, we have invited York…

  • Arrested development and austerity: Avoiding the debt trap with Daniel Munevar & María José Romero

    March 15, 2021 · 1 hr 17 min

    Since March 2020, 80 IMF lending arrangements have been approved. These arrangements arise in an era of historical global debt levels. The world is witnessing an insufficient and inadequate multilateral response to the Covid-19 pandemic…

  • Confronting Debt in the Global South with Dominic Brown

    December 8, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min

    Dominic Brown will discuss the strategies being proposed by popular movements in the Global South to confront their debt. He will reflect on current movements and their demands from a historical perspective with a focus on South Africa…

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About the show

Crash Course is a platform designed to open up debate on how we can move out of the current crisis and make the necessary steps towards achieving social, economic, ecological and regenerative justice. Crash Course is inviting global experts to break down complex issues in lay terms and make them accessible to all so that we can understand how to shape our economic system for a just recovery and future. We are a collective of engaged activists and experts from a number of organisations. Being motivated by the challenges and opportunities that the Corona-crisis presents us, we have decided to join forces by starting this initiative.