We talk to Blair Fix, a graduate student at York University in Canada, about his fascinating research examining energy and hierarchy and the relationship between hierarchy and personal income. I sound tired in the intro because I was, but the interview was recorded on a different day, so I don't sound so much like a lazy slug in the rest of the episode.
Reading mentioned or referenced:
- Capital as Power by Shimshon Bichler & Jonathan Nitzan
- A Power Theory of Personal Income Distribution by Blair Fix
- Energy and Institution Size by Blair Fix
- Growing through Sabotage: Energizing Hierarchical Power by Bichler & Nitzan
- Debunking Economics by Steve Keen
- The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman
- When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
- A Critical History of Economic Thought by E.K. Hunt
- Debt by David Graeber
- Rethinking Economic Growth Theory From a Biophysical Perspective by Blair Fix
- Uneven and Combined Confusion: On the Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism and the Rise of the West by Tim Di Muzio
- Against the Grain by James Scott
- Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality by T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
- Abolish Human Rentals: The Fundamental Myth by David Ellerman
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