Main Speakers:
Dr. Robert Boyer (France), Episodes 1–6
Professor (Directeur d' Etudes) at the University of Paris, President of the Association of Research and Regulation, Member of the Executive Council of the Society for Advancement of Socio Economics, an international inter disciplinary academic organization.
Dr. Ha-Joon Chang (Korea/UK), Episodes 2, 3
Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics University of Cambridge, author of Bad Samaritans and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism.
Prof. Noam Chomsky (US), Episode 2
Linguist, Philosopher, MIT
Dr. Alan Ebenstein (US), Episode 5
An Author and a scholar, Professor of Economics in the University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, as well as several other books dealing with political thinkers.
Prof. Stuart Ewen (US), Episode 1
Stuart Ewen is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies at Hunter College, and in the Ph.D. Programs in History, Sociology and American Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center (City University of New York). He is generally considered one of the originators of the field of Media Studies, and his writings have continued to shape debates in the field. He is the author of a number of influential books, including PR! A Social History of Spin (1996) and All Consuming images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture (1987; 1999).
Mary Gabriel (US), Episode 4
Author of Love and Capital
Prof. James Kenneth Galbraith (US), Episode 5
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/ Business Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Professor, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution, 1985.
Dr. Lewis Gordon (Jamaica/US), Episode 2
Temple University Prof. of Africana Philosophy and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona Jamaica.
Dr. David Graeber (US), Episodes 1, 3, 6
Graber is the author of the acclaimed book Debt: The First 5000 Years. He is also one of the founders of Occupied Wall Street movement and an Anti Globalization activist. Dr. Graber is a professor of anthropology in the London School of Economics.
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari (Israel), Episodes 1, 2
Lectures at the department of history in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Areas of Teaching: Military history, medieval history, World History. Author of the international best seller "From animals into gods"- a short history of mankind
Prof. David Harvey (UK/US), Episodes 2, 4
Professor Emeritus in the City University of New York and London School of Economics. Author of several books on Marx and his work.
Prof. Carol Heim (US), Episode 4
Department of Economics, UMASS/Amherst
Dr. Michael Hudson (US), Episodes 1, 3, 5, 6
A research professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and research associate of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He has been economic advisor to the Icelandic, Chinese, and Latvian and Mexican goverments. He is a former Wall Street Analyst.
Ho Fung Hung (China), Episodes 1, 3
Associate Professor of Sociology at John Hopkins University
Prof. Kari Polanyi Levitt (Canada), Episodes 1, 5, 6
Kari Polanyi Levitt is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, and was the George Beckford Professor of Political Economy at the University of the West Indies, Mona from 1995 to 1997. She has been Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Relations in Trinidad and has served as an Economic Planning Adviser to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Kari is the only daughter of Karl Polanyi.
Dr. Philippe Norel (1954–2014) (France), Episode 1, 2
Professor of Economics Poitier University France
Prof. Nicholas Philipson (UK), Episodes 1, 2
Honorary Research Fellow University of Edinburgh. Dr. Phillips on has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwig-Maximilian Universidad, Munich.
Prof. Thomas Piketty (France), Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6
French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, professor at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics.
Prof. Abraham Rotstein (Canada), Episodes 5, 6
Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto. Member of the Executive Board of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy
Lord Robert Skidelsky (UK), Episodes 1, 2, 5
Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of the The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is chairman of the Governors of Brighton College.
Prof. Yanis Varoufakis (Greece), Episodes 4, 6
Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, Greece, Economist in residence Valve corporation USA. Visiting Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, USA. Varoufakis was Greece's finance minister from January 2015-June 2015.
Academic Consultant:
Dr. Eric H. Mielants (Belguim/US), Episode 1
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Siences Fairfield University. Author of The Origins of Capitalism and the Rise in the West.
Additional Interviewees:
Peter Boffinger (Germany), Episode 5
Member of the German Council of Economic Experts
Camille Chalmers (Haiti), Episode 3
Economist and Director of the Hatian Platform for an Alternative Development (PAPDA)
Dr. Alberto Chirif (Peru), Episode 1
Peruvian Anthropologist, National university of San Marcos
Daniel Daianu (Romania), Episode 4
Former Finance Minister, Member of the European Parliament
Simon Fairlie (UK), Episode 1
A sustainable food advocate, a farmer and a writer
Prof. Walter Farber (Germany/US), Episode 6
Historian and Linguist Chicago University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Bruno Ferrari (Mexico), Episode 3
Mexico, Secretary of the Economy
Joschka Fischer (Germany), Episode 6
Germany's Former Foreign Minister
Prof. Arnold Harberger (US), Episode 5
Economist, Professor Emiritus, University of California, Los Angeles
Prof. Dennis Hodgson (USA), Episode 3
Sociologist, Fairfield University (Connecticut). A specialist on issues of demographics.
Tristram Hunt (UK), Episode 4
Historian, Labour Party MP, United Kingdom
Simon Johnson (UK/US), Episode 3
Former Chief Economist IMF, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Enterpreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Mamangement. Senator. Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Pascal Lamie (France), Episode 3
Former Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
George Magnus (UK), Episode 4
Former Chief Economist of USB Bank
Jason Manolopoulos (Greece), Episode 6
Investment Fund manager, Author
Misu Negritou (Romania), Episode 4
President of ING Romania
Luca Niculescu (Romania), Episode 4
Journalist, Radio France int'l, Romania
Kevin Noonan (US), Episode 4
Biotechnology Patent lawyer
Dr. Kwame Osei (Ghana), Episode 3
Historian, Author
ART Reyes (US), Episode 3
Former Head of UAW Local 651, Flint Michigan
Vandana Shiva (India), Episode 4
Author, Environmental Activist, India
Dr. Aseem Shrivastava (India), Episode 4
Enviornmental Economist
Terri Stangl (US), Episode 3
Executive Director, Center for Civil Justice, Flint Michigan
Toshiaki Taguchi (Japan), Episode 5
Former President of Toyota USA
Dr. Wang Ming (China), Episode 1
Chinese Historian Beijing University
Dr. Matias Vernengo (Brazil), Episode 3
Professor of Economics, Bucknell University. Visiting professor at University of Rio.