
About this podcast
The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin…
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The Econoclasts
About this podcast
The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin…
Recent episodes
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- America’s debt spiral & China’s big AI bet25 Aug · 31 min
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- The wealth tax myth & Britain’s dangerous Rejoin trap11 Aug · 45 min
- The greatest fraud in human history – with Ron Paul4 Aug · 30 min
- China’s hidden crisis & the West's dangerous wealth bubble28 Jul · 41 min
- The UK’s investment trap & the lie behind Western wealth21 Jul · 39 min
- Europe’s populist panic & China’s real free market14 Jul · 37 min
- The tragedy of America 250 & the truth about Ukraine7 Jul · 39 min
- The great Brexit myth & Germany’s industrial collapse30 Jun · 39 min