Mitchell Interviews Economist Kate Raworth on Doughnut Economics

05/05/17 • 75 min

Mitchell interviews the renowned writer and Professor of Economics, Kate Raworth. Kate is an economist whose research focuses on the unique social and ecological challenges of the 21st century. She is a Senior Visiting Research Associate teaching at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, and a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability. Over the last two decades Kate has worked as Senior Researcher at Oxfam, as a co-author of the UN's Human Development Report at the United Nations Development Programme, and as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in the villages of Zanzibar. She has been named by the Guardian as one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation. In this dialogue, Mitchell and Kate explore how an economic system can be, not just of service to a limited few but to all.

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Mitchell Rabin Interviews Dr. Dean Radin on his book Supernormal

His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science & psychology For over two decades he has been engaged in frontiers research on the nature of consciousness. Dean is author or co-author of 250 peer-reviewed scientific & popular articles, three dozen book chapters,& three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997), Entangled Minds(Simon & Schuster, 2006), & a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, SUPERNORMAL (Random House, 2013). These books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages, so far. Dean was featured in a New York Times Magazine ARTICLE; & he has appeared on dozens of TV showsfrom the BBC’s Horizon & PBS’s Closer to Truth to Oprah & Larry King Live. Listen here: http://abetterworld.tv/a-better-world-dean-radin-12-30-08. Dean is awesomely curious and committed to bringing scientific inquiry to society’s assumptions about what’s true or possible and is highly skilled, rigorous and brilliant at it.

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Mitchell Interviews physicist Dr. Fritjof Capra on The Systems View of Life

Mitchell’s guest today is Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., Dr. Capra is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society. A Vienna-born physicist and systems theorist, Capra first became popularly known for his book, The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics was changing our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Published in 1975, it is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva in the courtyard of one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research: CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva. Purchase Dr. Capra’s books here. His most recent book, The Systems View of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014), presents a grand new synthesis of this work—integrating the biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified vision. Capra is a founding director of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy,