Escaping Capitalism: How to Replace the "Logic" of Psychopaths, Pharma Bros, and Private Prisons

Capitalism ruins SO many things, from key sectors like college sports all the way down to novelties like people's health and the environment. Jason, Rob, and Asher rely on their keen insight and otherworldly investigative talents to somehow unearth a few flaws of capitalism. But rather than wallow in the world of profiteering and privatization, they explore the solidarity economy and other alternatives to the "greed is good" way of running things.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

Sources/Links/Notes:

• Wikipedia page “Nike and the University of Oregon”
• Joshua Hunt book: University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education.
• Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, Verso 2019.
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century, Harvard University Press 2014.
• Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
• Jeffrey Sachs, “Twentieth-Century Political Economy: A Brief History of Global Capitalism,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 15, No. 4.
• Summary of End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act
• David Bollier, The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking
• Lobbying to defeat bills that prohibit private prisons
• More lobbying in support of private prisons
• Incredible drug price increase after hedge fund manager acquires it
• Annual report of Weaver Street Market
• Donnie Maclurcan's explanation of not-for-profit enterprises
• Ranking of the world's happiest countries
• Boston Ujima Project
• Alfie Kohn,  No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
• B Corps and B Lab
• Definition of the solidarity economy from the New Economy Coalition

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