<![CDATA[Misaligned Markets]]> https://misaligned.markets We're told capitalism promises innovation and competition, but increasingly it generates some of our most wicked challenges. Misaligned Markets is about the ways which markets and capitalism come into tension and how these conflicts (fail to) resolve. Join host, Mike for monthly conversations with researchers, policy analysts, and activists documenting how capitalism misaligns markets.

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]]> RSS.com 2026.721.95756 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:40:12 GMT en d37d1303-0e01-5ca0-b6a4-459d716ee0c1 https://media.rss.com/misaligned-markets/podcast_cover_20260731_194451_0006c3b51321490430cb86da2489edd4.png Misaligned Markets https://misaligned.markets no Mike @ Misaligned Markets Mike @ Misaligned Markets false episodic b7dcd850-8d2b-11f1-b77e-03500027b373 podcast false <![CDATA[Technology, power, and political economy w/ Professor Khalid Kadir]]> In part two of Mike's conversation with UC Berkeley professor Khalid Kadir, the conversation shifts to contemporary issues. Including how technical solutions are used to depoliticize distributional conflicts, how technology hides human labor, and how modern cultures often fail to appreciate risk.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/misaligned-markets/3038352 6d11a624-b787-41cd-bddf-83bb8e6c5c7f 4235 full Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:34:21 GMT false false University of California, Berkeley, Milvia Street, Downtown Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94705, USA <![CDATA[From engineering to political economy w/ Professor Khalid Kadir]]> Professor Khalid Kadir, continuing lecturer at UC Berkeley, discusses his unplanned journey from mechanical and civil engineering into political economy, sparked by the question of why proven wastewater treatment technologies go unused in developing countries. Together with Mike he explores methodological tensions within economics and political economy, the role of privilege and openness in intellectual discovery, and the moral foundations of justice that guide his work.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/misaligned-markets/3038156 fc5cb957-aca9-4902-90a1-9598f869f9a9 2142 full Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:19:55 GMT false false University of California, Berkeley, Milvia Street, Downtown Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94705, USA <![CDATA[Misaligned Markets podcast introduction]]> We're told capitalism promises innovation and competition, but increasingly it generates some of our most wicked challenges. Misaligned Markets is about the ways which markets and capitalism come into tension and how these conflicts (fail to) resolve. Join host, Mike for monthly conversations with researchers, policy analysts, and activists documenting how capitalism misaligns markets.

Learn more about the Misaligned Markets project: https://misaligned.markets/about

Join the community: https://misaligned.markets/#/portal/signup

Support the project: https://misaligned.markets/#/portal/support

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