Podcasts and radio interviews
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“How to Live a Bountiful Life in a Capitalist World with Duke Professor Dirk Philipsen,” interviewed by Sian Simpson, Bountifull, May 2025.
The Use and Abuse of Economic Expertise, with producer and host Alex Opperman, Episode 1, “Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy,” Oct 21, 2024.
“Growth vs. Wellbeing: Rethinking Success in a World Overflowing with Trash,” interview with The Delve, 30 November 2024.
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The Way of the Future – Wellbeing Economics,” Bountiful podcast, New Zealand, with host Sian Simpson, hour-long conversation on wellbeing economics, May 2025.
“How to Live a Bountiful Life in a Capitalist World with Duke Professor Dirk Philipsen,” interview with Sian Simpson, Bountifull, May 2025.
“Growth vs. Wellbeing: Rethinking Success in a World Overflowing with Trash,” interview with The Delve, 30 November 2024.
Less is More – a Better Future Through Degrowth,” The Delve, exclusive interview on internationally syndicated podcast, 29 November, 2024.
The Use and Abuse of Economic Expertise, with producer and host Alex Opperman, Episode 1, “Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy,” Oct 21, 2024.
Blame Capitalism – Degrowing Pains,” interviewed by Noel King for Vox’s “Today Explained,” 29 September 2023 (average listenership of over 1 million).
“The Regenerative Future of a Post-Growth Economy,” interviewed by Charlene Norman, four podcast episodes, Exploring Compassionate Capitalism, 3 June 2023.
Thinking about the Health of Our Economy,” interviewed by Melissa Harris-Perry, The Takeaway, 2 January 2023 (national audience of about 3.2 million).
What GDP does and doesn’t tell us,” extensive invited interview, Vox and MSN, 28 July 2022.
“Wellbeing Economics—Beyond Growth and Extraction,” contributor to Scene on Radio podcast, Season 5, Episode 11, “Change Everything,” 15 Dec 2021 (series had over 1 million downloads as of Jan 2022).
“How GDP Came to Rule the World,” 360-Policy Podcast, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, April 2017.
“The Economic Melt-Down—Historical Causes and Social Consequences,” 35-minute presentation on AM 1070 Newsradio, October 9, 2008.
“The New European Union in Historical Context,” 35-minute presentation on AM 1070 Newsradio, July 3, 2008.
“The Wrong Kind of Growth—the Problem with Corporations and the GDP,” 45-minute presentation on AM 1070 Newsradio, May 21, 2008.
“Capitalism’s Achilles Heel—the Destructive Power of Profit,” presentation on Virginia’s Public Radio show With Good Reason, aired May 10, 2008.
“Race and Class After Katrina,” presentation on Virginia’s Public Radio show With Good Reason, together with Dr. Renee Hill, aired March and April 2006; re-broadcast August 12-14.
“Lessons of New Orleans one Year After Katrina,” presentation on Hampton Roads NPR station WHRV, August 29, 2006.
“Race: Does It Exist?” presentation on Virginia’s Public Radio show With Good Reason, together with Dr. Audrey Smedley, aired December 2000 and September 2001.
“Dialogue on Race,” guest on Virginia’s Public Radio show With Good Reason with Carolyn Elliott, also featuring Dr. Renée Hill, and Dr. Roger Wilkins, 11/30 through 12/6/98.
“Strangers in a Strange Land: Refugee and Immigration Issues in Virginia,” guest on Virginia’s Public Radio show With Good Reason with Carolyn Elliott, December 12 through 17, 1997.
“Refugees in Our Midst,” half-hour presentation on “Midday” (a program of the Richmond based local NPR station), December 16, 1996.
"Historical Labors," radio interview about labor and political culture in contemporary Eastern Europe for Soundings, National Endowment for the Humanities, 28 May 1991.