Doug Henwood: The Sharing Economy (In Conversation)

Summary

Doug Henwood is a columnist for The Nation, Harper’s, and Jacobin Mag; the radio host of Behind the News; author of Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom; and most recently of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency. We spoke about his research on the “sharing economy”, as well as the history of capitalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and possible solutions to the growing precariousness of labor.

Intermission music by Valet.

Upstream is a radio documentary series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Blurring the line between economic analysis and storytelling, we look beyond the numbers to explore a wide variety of themes pertaining to our tumultuous and thrilling 21st century economy.