#205 What Does Capitalism Mean? (With Anwar Shaikh)

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🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week we get deep into capitalism. Anwar Shaikh is a heterodox economist, founding member of the Union of Radical Political Economists, and Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York City. His latest book Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis has been widely acclaimed as one of the most important works of economic theory to have come from the Left in many years. Anwar explains how and why capitalism works, and the consequences of having it as the dominant economic operating system in the world. What does that really mean?! Anwar will tell you. More Info: Anwar Shaikh’s work: http://www.anwarshaikhecon.org/ Come see me live - check out all the dates here: https://www.russellbrand.com/live-dates/ My new meditation podcast Above the Noise is out now only on Luminary, I will be releasing guided meditations every Wednesday, please check out it: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. *not a euphemism Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality. https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from the Wonderful Luminary Network. This week I spoke with
0:06.4	Anwar Shaik. Anwar is a head-redox economist, founding member of the Union of Radical
0:11.6	Political Economists and Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
0:16.8	His latest book Capitalism, Competition, Conflict, Crisis has been widely acclaimed
0:21.2	as one of the most important works of economic theory to have come from the left in many years.
0:25.8	Now, Under the Skin is on Apple Podcast. Please leave me a review there. A good one if you don't mind.
0:31.8	And if you have anyone as people that sort of said, oh, you know, you talk all the time,
0:35.5	have a listen to this one, because I barely talk any other time. Do I?
0:40.2	Wait, talk all the time. Oh, and this particular podcast.
0:43.0	Oh, I think in any of them.
0:44.2	Are you talking less over the earth?
0:46.5	Yeah, I can't bother.
0:47.4	That's what's fun.
0:49.8	No, no, no.
0:51.8	No, so I learned off Joe Rogan actually, I just thought, just don't talk.
0:54.6	To he talks more than you.
0:56.3	Does he? He kind of butts in in a more annoying way.
0:58.9	I can't see you because of the cameras.
1:00.7	But you can't see my expression. You can't see now. I'm crying.
1:04.5	Well, anyway, I learned from Joe Rogan. Let people talk. That's what I learned off of him.
1:08.2	Why do I?
1:09.6	For five Joe Rogan?
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