A-level Politics

18. How Did The US Supreme Court Become So Powerful?

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Sun, 3 Mar 2019 10:58:00 -0800

BBC Law in Action Series - Joshua Rozenberg hears the story of the extraordinary case that rewrote the way America is governed - giving the Supreme Court the power to overrule Congress. He discovers what American prosecutors get up to behind the closed doors of the grand jury room. And he asks whether we should be screening jurors in England and Wales for bias before they are allowed to serve on rape trials.

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17. Talking Politics Guide to the US Constitution

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:59:00 -0800

The Democrats say that the Constitution only works in a radically changing society if you interpret it liberally, in a living sense, for every generation. The conservatives say that the Constitution must be interpreted according to what the founding fathers intended. The root of the conflict between Democrats and Republicans is over the proper use of federal power.

Today, federal paralysis means that there is a resurgence of activity on the state level.

With a conservative court, the states could even become the vanguard of the progressive movement. In the post-Civil War, post-Warren court era, federalism may be able to work in a way that it never could before.

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16. Burke, Oakeshott and the Intellectual Roots of Modern Conservatism - LSE Lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:25:00 -0800

Speaker(s): Jesse Norman MP | Edmund Burke and Michael Oakeshott are often considered as the intellectual founding fathers of British conservatism. But in fact they disagree on some fundamental issues. What are those issues, and who is right? Jesse Norman is Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. His book Edmund Burke: Politician, Philosopher, Prophet has been recently published to wide acclaim. He was awarded Parliamentarian and Backbencher of the Year in 2012.

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15. Prof. Stephanie Kelton on MMT

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:38:00 -0700

Stephanie Kelton is a leading American economist and a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University. Kelton was Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and Economic Advisor to the Bernie 2016 presidential campaign. She's best known for being a pioneer of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

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14. Keynes v Hayek - LSE Lecture (Nicholas Wapshott)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:24:00 -0700

Speaker(s): Nicholas Wapshott | Eighty years ago at the LSE, Friedrich Hayek launched an assault upon the new economic thinking of John Maynard Keynes. The clash was so bitter and vituperative that it scandalized the cloistered world of academia. Eighty years on, the differences between the two men have still not been finally resolved and their conflicting approaches to the economy continue to define the profound chasm between politicians of left and right. Nicholas Wapshott is a columnist for Reuters and regular contributor to Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage. He is a former senior editor for The Times and the New York Sun and editorial consultant to Oprah Winfrey.

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13. Keynes v Hayek - LSE Debate

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:15:00 -0700

Speaker(s): Professor George Selgin, Professor Lord Skidelsky, Duncan Weldon, Dr Jamie Whyte | How do we get out of the financial mess we're in? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments could create sustainable employment and growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than fiscal stimulus or artificially low interest rates. BBC Radio 4 will be recording a debate between modern day followers of Keynes and Hayek. George Selgin is Professor of Economics at The Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. Selgin is one of the founders of the Modern Free Banking School, which draws its inspiration from the writings of Hayek on the denationalization of money and choice in currency. He has written extensively on free banking, the private supply of money and deflation. George Selgin is the author of The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue (1988), Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (1997), and Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage (2008). Robert Skidelsky is 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 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. His latest book is Keynes: The Return of the Master. Duncan Weldon is a former Bank of England economist and currently works as an economics adviser to an international trade union federation. He has a long-standing interest in and admiration for Keynes but also a respect for Hayek. He blogs at Duncan's Economic Blog. Jamie Whyte was born in New Zealand and educated at the University of Auckland and then the University of Cambridge in England, where he gained a PhD in philosophy. Jamie remained at Cambridge for a further three years, as a fellow of Corpus Christi College and a lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty. During this time he published a number of academic articles on the nature of truth, belief and desire, and won the Analysis Essay Competition for the best article by a philosopher under the age of 30. Jamie then joined Oliver Wyman & Company, a London-based strategy consulting firm specialising in the financial services industry, for which he still works, as the Head of Research and Publications. Jamie has published two books: Crimes Against Logic (McGraw Hill, Chicago, 2004) and A Load of Blair (Corvo, London, 2005). Jamie is a regular contributor of opinion articles to The Times (of London), the Financial Times and Standpoint magazine. In 2006 he won the Bastiat Prize for journalism. He is on the advisory board of The Cobden Centre. The debate will be chaired by Paul Mason, economics editor of BBC 2's Newsnight and author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed.

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12. The Future of Capitalism - LSE Lecture (Good for PPE)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:01:00 -0700

Speaker(s): Professor Sir Paul Collier | Following the publication of his latest book, The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier will discuss this book and his wider work. Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. He is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Director of the International Growth Centre. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanisation in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organisational cultures.

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11. Capitalism (Marx) - LSE Lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 9 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Wolff | For much of the early part of the twentieth century, political theorists debated the moral and economic merits of capitalism in competition with communism. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the triumph of the market economy, those on the political left briefly flirted with the idea of market socialism. But critics of capitalism are running out of alternative ideas, to the point that a placard at an anti-capitalism march proclaimed 'Replace Capitalism with Something Nice!'. In this year's Ralph Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture Professor Jonathan Wolff will ask: Are we stuck with capitalism? How far can it be modified? How far should it be modified?

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10. Anthony Giddens on the digital revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:18:00 -0700

Listen how Lord Anthony Giddens, one of the world's leading sociologists, examines and explains the fundamental social and economic transformations the digital revolution is bringing upon societies. We would like to thank the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for organising the seminar where Lord Giddens delivered his speech.

9. Beatrice Webb - LSE Lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:06:00 -0700

Speaker(s): Michael Ward, Jonathan Derbyshire, Professor David Piachaud, Stephen Timms MP | Tackling poverty and inequality is at the heart of progressive politics. But what can history tell us about the struggle for a fairer society, and where does the work of Beatrice Webb, the co-founder of LSE and advocate of the welfare state, fit in? Jonathan Derbyshire is the culture editor of the New Statesman. Professor David Piachaud is Professor of Social Policy at LSE. Stephen Timms is MP for East Ham and shadow minister for employment. Michael Ward is a Smith Institute Research Fellow and chairman of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies.

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8. Rosa Luxemburg - BBC World Service

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:59:00 -0700

To mark a century of International Women's Day we bring you a portrait of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Feminist icon, writer and theorist - Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution.

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7. Rosa Luxemburg - BBC In Our Time

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:30:00 -0700

Melvyn Bragg discusses the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), 'Red Rosa', who was born in Poland under the Russian Empire and became one of the leading revolutionaries in an age of revolution. She was jailed for agitation and for her campaign against the Great War which, she argued, pitted workers against each other for the sake of capitalism. With Karl Liebknecht and other radicals, she founded the Spartacus League in the hope of ending the war through revolution. She founded the German Communist Party with Liebknecht; with the violence that followed the German Revolution of 1918, her opponents condemned her as Bloody Rosa. She and Liebknecht were seen as ringleaders in the Spartacus Revolt of 1919 and, on 15th January 1919, the Freikorps militia arrested and murdered them. While Luxemburg has faced opposition for her actions and ideas from many quarters, she went on to become an iconic figure in East Germany under the Cold War and a focal point for opposition to the Soviet-backed leadership. With Jacqueline Rose Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London Mark Jones Irish Research Council fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin and Nadine Rossol Senior lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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6. Karl Marx - Part 4 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Part 4 of 4 on Karl Marx's Political Philosophy.

Karl Marx is one of the most influential figures in human history. The Prussian-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, and revolutionary socialist, produced some of the most controversial and influential works in the past two-hundred years. A champion of human rights for many and a dangerous radical for many others; Karl Marx, the communist, is considered one of the principal architects of modern social science. Regardless of your own points of view, it is hard to deny that Marx's critique of capitalism is relevant today. In January 2017, Oxfam published An Economy for the 99%, which found that the richest 8 men in the world are worth more than the poorest 3.6 billion. In 1848, alongside Friedrich Engels, Marx produced the Manifesto of the Communist Party. In the concluding remarks, Marx writes, "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!"

This week in Part 4, we'll be engaging in some Further Analysis and Discussion.

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5. Karl Marx - Part 3 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:03:00 -0700

Welcome to Part 3 of 4 on Karl Marx's Political Philosophy.

This week in Part 3, we'll be discussing Alienation and Exploitation.

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4. Karl Marx - Part 2 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:45:00 -0700

Welcome to Part 2 of 4 on Karl Marx's Political Philosophy.

This week in Part 2, we'll be discussing Internal Contradictions and Revolution.

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3. Karl Marx - Part 1 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:39:00 -0700

Welcome to Part 1 of 4 on Karl Marx's Political Philosophy.

This week in Part I, we'll be discussing Karl Marx's life and influences.

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2. John Stuart Mill - Part 2 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:59:00 -0700

Welcome to Episode 22 (Part II/II) on John Locke's Political Philosophy. Born in Somerset, England 1632 and died in Essex, at the age of 72 in 1704, John Locke was among the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the 17th century. Locke’s main political work, Two Treatise of Government, was published in anonymously in 1689. The First Treatise is a sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Divine Right of Kings, whilst the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory. Our main focus today is the second treatise of government. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, a picture much more stable than Thomas Hobbes' state of nature that recall, is "war of every man against every man,". Locke argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God. He proceeds by explaining the hypothetical rise of property and civilisation, in the process explaining that the only legitimate governments are those consented to by the people. Ultimately for Locke, a government that rules without the consent of the people can ultimately be overthrown. For many, the language of the second treatise of government echoes throughout the declaration of independence. In the words of Thomas Jefferson: "Bacon, Locke and Newton, I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived".This week in Part II, we'll be discussing Locke's idea of property, civil society and engaging in some further analysis and discussion.Any thoughts? Please tweet us @thepanpsycast. The file size is large, please be patient whilst the podcast buffers/downloads/mixes its labour with your device.

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1. John Stuart Mill - Part 1 (Panpsycast)

noreply@blogger.com (Roonomics) — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:44:00 -0700

Hello and welcome to Episode 23 (Part I/II) on John Stuart Mill's Political Philosophy. The following is a quotation from Colin Heydt: Writing of John Stuart Mill a few days after Mill’s death, Henry Sidgwick claimed, “I should say that from about 1860-65 or thereabouts he ruled England in the region of thought as very few men ever did: I do not expect to see anything like it again.” Mill established this rule over English thought through his writings in logic, epistemology, economics, social and political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and current affairs. One can say with relative security, looking at the breadth and complexity of his work, that Mill was the greatest nineteenth-century British philosopher.This week in Part I, we'll be discussing Mill's Utilitarianism and On Liberty. Any thoughts? Please tweet us @thepanpsycast. The file size is large, please be patient whilst the podcast buffers/downloads/allows its people to flourish Part I. Utilitarianism (7:30)Part II. On Liberty (17:00)Part III. Subjection of Women (00:05 in Part II)Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion (23:15 in Part II).

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