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Macrodose - Davos, US in debt, and deadly heatwaves

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4.8551 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of a “poly crisis” at the World Economic Forum in Davos (00:50), the threat of default as the US breaches it’s debt ceiling (06:03), and a new report from the think tank Autonomy exploring the future of work in an era of climate breakdown (12:38).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Politics Theory Other is brought to you by the show's supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books,

0:05.8

who published lots of excellent left-wing titles, perfect for PTO listeners.

0:10.8

Originally published in 1971, Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silver is a key work by one of

0:18.0

the most important Latin American Marxists of the 20th century.

0:22.2

Silver argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work

0:25.2

results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression.

0:29.8

We cannot understand Marx if we treat him as a scientist, a philosopher or a literary writer

0:34.9

when he was in fact all three at once.

0:38.2

This new edition, published by Verso Books this month,

0:41.2

marks the first appearance of one of Silver's works in English,

0:44.4

and features an introduction by Alberto Toscano.

0:47.6

Marx's literary style by Ludovico Silver is out now from Verso Books,

0:52.2

and part of their January Verso Book Club reading.

0:57.7

You are now listening to Macrodose.

1:05.0

Hello and welcome to Macrodose, a podcast hosted by me, James Medway, that brings you your

1:10.0

weekly fix of everything economics

1:11.7

and a quick, 15-minute roundup. Each Wednesday morning, we bring you the key stories making the

1:16.5

news and the analysis you need to make sense of them. In this week's episode, for a first story,

1:21.9

we'll be looking at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos and asking whether

1:26.1

it's really everything it's cracked up to be.

1:28.9

Secondly, we'll take a look at the issues surrounding the US government debt ceiling and why it's

1:33.4

such an unnecessary headache for all of us. For a third story, there's a new report out from the

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