The Watson School's @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Trending Globally pod had me on talking about the 10th anniversary of Brexit, why the UK has PM's like Love Island contestants have partners, and where it's all going. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/eec8...
Ten years after the Brexit vote, the UK’s future is up for grabs
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Did an interesting interview with Jen Lind on her Blue Blaze foreign policy substack wondering if IR theory is better than useless and maybe there's more to Trump than randomness. Enjoy, if that's your bag: blueblaze.substack.com/p/burning-do...
Burning Down the House
The US domestic politics and geopolitics of the green transition: an interview with Mark Blyth
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Did the Indicator pod with @planetmoney.bsky.social on inflation. Short and fun chat: www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices? : The Indicator from Planet Money
Inflation is at a three-year high. That’s a problem for the Fed. Yet, under the leadership of new chair Kevin Warsh, it opted yesterday not to hike interest rates. So today on the show, who are the wi...
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For your midweek commute or sojourn? The Next Rhodes Center Podcast is up. Brendan Greeley and I discuss his brilliant book, The Almighty Dollar, and what we get wrong about money in general: player.captivate.fm/episode/03c0... Really worth your time...
Does the US really make the dollar? Has it ever?
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I'm at an academic conference in Dublin soon. @alanjdunne who runs the @TopTradersLive podcast asked me to do a launch event with him in the evening of Weds June 17th: www.eventbrite.com/e/investing-... Given how much fun the podcast was how could I say no? See there there...
Investing in the New Economic Regime
Alan Dunne in conversation with Mark Blyth on why the economic regime is fundamentally shifting & launch of Regime Adaptive Fund
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For your weekend listening pleasure, its the Rhodes Center Podcast with @Cornelia_Woll and I discussing why corporations never ever go to jail: player.captivate.fm/episode/cb33...
How come corporate justice means never having to admit you're guilty?
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And I had a nice we slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...
Economist Mark Blyth analyses the economy and path ahead for new Federal Reserve chair
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Brown University economist Mark Blyth about the challenges facing Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Reposting this until everyone buys it.
Mark Blyth@mkblyth.bsky.social · 3mo agoOk everyone. @bhgreeley has written the best book on the USD ever. The US fell into it, used it, and is now in danger or losing. And now you can get it at a discount. Seriously. Read the book. Its a bullshit filter for USD discussions, and so much more: bookpal.com/the-almighty...
Ok everyone. @bhgreeley has written the best book on the USD ever. The US fell into it, used it, and is now in danger or losing. And now you can get it at a discount. Seriously. Read the book. Its a bullshit filter for USD discussions, and so much more: bookpal.com/the-almighty...
The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money (Signed Edition) [SC9780593138885]
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Last Rhodes center talk of the Spring and my last hosting as Director. With @bhgreeley and his new amazing and so-readable new book on the Almighty Dollar. We may even have some to give away (if they turn up in time): Tomorrow - here: events.brown.edu/rhodes-cente...
Brendan Greeley — The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
(Registration Required to Attend In-Person) America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts...
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Ten years ago @bhgreeley and I kinda kidnapped the FT Alphaville podcast while no one was looking. Got away with it for almost a year. Since then, not many joint podcasts. Today. We're back. Thanks @willapaskin slate.com/transcripts/...
Transcript - How to Make Dollars Make Sense
Transcript of How to Make Dollars Make Sense
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New Rhodes Podcast up with Erik Peinert on his new book Monopoly Politics. Or, how the world shifts from Competition to Monopoly and back again without anyone really noticing. Great Conversation: player.captivate.fm/episode/c79b...
From competition to monopoly and back again: a political economist's tale
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Reposting this. If you are around Providence tomorrow at noon come by. Why do corporates always get off? Why do foreign firms get fined 6X US firm by US authorities? Come find out.
Mark Blyth@mkblyth.bsky.social · 4mo agoIf anyone is around Providence Friday April the 10th this is going to be a great talk. Cornelia Woll will give the 5th annual Ethics of Capitalism lecture Friday April 10th at noon in the Jukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. I hope to see you there.
Had a good chat with the Polycrisis folks. Helped frame my recent LSE talk, which is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09AY... Podcast is shorter. Your choice: pod.link/1884213852
Does decarbonization still have a future?
YouTube video by LSE European Institute
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If anyone is around Providence Friday April the 10th this is going to be a great talk. Cornelia Woll will give the 5th annual Ethics of Capitalism lecture Friday April 10th at noon in the Jukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. I hope to see you there.
A few updates. Project Syndicate have a magazine now - like a real one - and they asked me to do a piece for it back in January. It just came out. Held up surprisingly well (with a wee insert about Iran): prosyn.org/uj9MafY?h=AE...
Lonely Empire
Mark Blyth suggests that the United States has very little to gain by reverting to overt imperialism.
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Just in case anyone is around London tomorrow and has nothing to do on the second nice day of 2026 weather-wise you can always come see me do this: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... Spoiler alert. Despite everything, it does.
Does decarbonization still have a future?
6.30pm Thurs 19 March | Mark Blyth, Dr Benjamin Braun | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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For your weekend reading pleasure. A brilliant piece of satire that isn't actually at all satirical, sadly. But oh, the atriums... www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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New Rhodes Center Pod just up. Great conversation with Alex Cooley and Alex Dukalskis about their new book Dictating the Agenda. AKA - How authoritarians go from playing defense other than offense. Great book. Read it. But listen here first: player.captivate.fm/episode/5e16...
How authoritarianism went from defense to offense on the world stage
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Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
Actually, not final for today. New Rhodes center Podcast is out. Seth Rockman interviews Sven Beckett about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/76bb...
A global history of capitalism
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And finally for today a Pod I did with two British friends who used to work police intel and have seen the collapse of state capacity up close and personal: thecollators.com/s2e1
The Collators Podcast
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Also, my Berkeley talk on Citizenship and the Politics of Grievance from December is up. Its long. Lots of slides. Trying to think through how to talk about the nation without becoming an ethnic nationalist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWh...
Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance? - Jefferson Memorial Lecture - Mark Blyth
YouTube video by UC Berkeley Events
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Did the Dip (not the Dig) podcast with Deutsche Welle (in English). If you want to know my thinking about the current moment this is a good place to get it in less than 15 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL1...
Will Trump's Greenland obsession result in a tariff meltdown? | The Dip Podcast
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While Trump thinks that the non-existence of windmills in China shows the obviousness of the big green scam, the UK intel community still thinks climate change is real and a massive security risk: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e... Who would you believe? Really...
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Two views of the present. If you can get past the FT paywall, Howard Lutnick on the American present: www.ft.com/content/a675... And now Cornel Ban on America's actual present and likely future: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Howard Lutnick: Why the Trump administration is going to Davos
Capitalism has a new sheriff in town
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Something a bit more fun (kinda). What's behind the attack on the Fed, and central banks/technocratic governance, in general? Regime Shift, Power Play, or the Politics of Distraction? Probably all of the above. Me of @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Trump's War on the Fed, Explained. Plus, How One School Teacher Stood Up to Putin. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation against the Federal Reserve and its chairman. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the Trump administration’s pressure ca...
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Mike Green is at it again. His ability to recast what I think I know into something else entirely is incredible. Here he does it again. This time on what full Ai automation (or even partial) would actually mean. It's not what you think: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/the-thermo...
The Thermodynamic Margin Call
Why Wall Street is Long the Wrong Singularity
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For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...
When Capitalism Reboots and Crashes Again ft. Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth dissects the end of neoliberalism, rising power blocs, deficits, migration, and why the global order is sliding into a harsher phase.
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