Behind the News: Sex, Labor, and Capitalism w/ Heather Berg
Plus: The rivalry among elite American economists.
May 31, 2022
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May 31, 2022
Behind the News: Sex, Labor, and Capitalism w/ Heather Berg
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<p>Doug interviews <a href="https://www.drheatherberg.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Heather Berg</a>, author of <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661926/porn-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><em>Porn Work</em></a>, on relations of production in sex work. Plus: <a href="https://www.kevinlyoung.net" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Kevin Young</a> and <a href="https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-organization/staff/lsioa" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Leonard Seabrooke</a>, co-authors of <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ser/mwac024/6582368" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">a paper in the <em>Socio-Economic Review</em></a>, on the contrasting collegial styles of the Chicago and Charles River schools of economics.</p><br /><p><em>Behind the News</em>, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: <a href="https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html</a></p>
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