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LFP 136: Steve Keen - Will economists destroy capitalism?
Season 1 Episode 136
Our guest today is Professor Steve Keen, an economist and author best known for his long-standing critique of mainstream neoclassical economics. He w…
11 hours ago
LFP 135: Pat Kane & Indra Adnan - If politics is broken, what's the alternative?
Season 1 Episode 135
Our guests in this episode are Pat Kane and Indra Adnan, the co-convenors of The Alternative Global. That project was launched in 2017 with the quest…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
LFP 134: Ewan McMillan - AI overhang and economics impact
Season 1 Episode 134
We are continuing our investigation into the implications of the Economic Singularity, the time when we need a new economic system because full autom…
4 weeks ago
LFP 133: Oliver Ritchie - Waking up Economists
Season 1 Episode 133
We are continuing our investigation into the implications of the Economic Singularity, the time when we need a new economic system because full autom…
1 month ago
LFP 132: Matteo Rossi MacDermant - Technoprogressive Worldbuilding
Season 1 Episode 132
This is the first of a number of episodes on the broad theme of “the technoprogressive opportunity”. That’s the name of a conference taking place in …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
LFP 131: Ben Luong - The Discontinuity Thesis
Season 1 Episode 131
AI-driven automation of cognitive labour is not merely another technological transition but a structural discontinuity that will end, sooner or later…
2 months, 1 week ago
LFP 130: Gerry Tsoukalas and Brett Falk - The AI Automation Layoff Trap
Season 1 Episode 130
This episode continues our investigation into the implications of advanced AI for jobs, and specifically, how to design an economic system that makes…
3 months, 1 week ago
LFP 129: Ted Shelton - Post-labour economics and the future of capitalism
Season 1 Episode 129
This episode continues our investigation into the potential wide-ranging implications of advanced AI for economics.
Traditionally, value is said to be…
4 months ago
LFP 128: Adrian Brown - Windfall Trust and the Economic Singularity
Season 1 Episode 128
What happens if AI delivers major advances in capability and productivity, but also creates significant disruption to jobs, incomes, and public finan…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
LFP 127: Anticipating 2026
Season 1 Episode 127
When we started this Podcast back in August 2022, we, Calum and David, announced the theme to be “Anticipating and managing exponential impact”. We t…
8 months ago