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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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 teaching.

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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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