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Lecture: Inequality, International Relations Theory, and the Imperial Blindspot
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22:44Now Playing(audio only). This episode is unusual, more like part of a mini-lecture series. Dr. Van Jackson was asked to give a talk recently on inequality, development, and IR theory for an audience that skews quite young. This episode brings out the highlights from that lecture, hitting many topics that might be of interest:
—Why IR paradigms are not especially useful for making sense of inequality.
—Why it sucks to be poor, no matter what flag you live under.
—Capitalism v. Marxism, and by proxy, modernization theory v. dependency theory.
—Why the East Asian development model is at its end.
—Why it can be useful to think of political economy as a capitalist world system.
—Why redistribution is the only alternative to revolution if you want to reduce inequality.
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