Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The State of the US Economy and Mainstream Politics

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🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On Jacobin Radio, UCLA historian and coeditor of Catalyst Robert Brenner joins Suzi to discuss the state of the US economy, mainstream politics, and neoliberalism. How are today's political earthquakes connected to the economy, and what can we expect from changes in US economic policy? What do the proclaimed health of the unemployment rate and stock market mean for working people?

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman,
0:13.0	Robert Brenner, UCLA historian and co-editor of Catalyst,
0:17.0	joins us for an extended conversation
0:20.0	on the state of the economy, mainstream politics, and neoliberalism.
0:25.0	Welcome to another edition of Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman. Today we devote
0:36.9	the entire podcast to an extended conversation with UCLA historian and co-editor of catalyst Robert Brenner.
0:45.0	We spoke to Robert Brenner in our inaugural podcast in February,
0:49.0	then looking at the political landscape that brought us the age of Trump.
0:53.0	Today we begin with the state of the economy and then look at mainstream politics
0:57.4	drawing out the intimate connection between the two, which is to say we'll talk
1:01.6	about neoliberalism.
1:03.6	Robert Brenner is a professor of history at UCLA
1:06.6	and he's director of the Center for Social Theory
1:09.0	and Comparative History, and the author of,
1:11.8	among many other works, economics of global turbulence the
1:15.8	boom in the bubble the Brenner debates and merchants and revolution Bob more
1:21.2	importantly or just as importantly is also the co-editor and founder of the new journal,
1:27.0	Catalyst, published under the auspices of Jacobin magazine.
1:31.0	Welcome, Bob Brenner.
1:33.0	Thank you very much, Susie. It's great to be here.
1:35.0	Well, let's just cut to the chase and talk about the performance of the economy since all the financial pages and the Fed Reserve Chairwoman has been saying yet again just
1:46.9	how well the economy is going and in fact she's proclaimed that the economy is
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