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Behind the News: Green New Dead End? w/ Josh Mason

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The Dangers of the Capitalist Economy

I find as an economics teacher it's great to have China out there as an example of well you don't need foreign investment. I think the Green New Deal program is a logically correct thing to argue that rapid decarbonization will actually be experienced as an economic boom and in coherent ways. The de-growthers would not be necessarily pleased with your analysis what's your response to them? We've had a generation plus of managing distributional conflicts through unemployment and telling people you just have to suck up labor, he says. You know how we've maintained more rapid growth system  is something that politically our system is not equipped to handle.

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