en-us Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:27:33 -0500 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES Often arbitrary and always consequential: philosophers Michael Blake, Arthur Ripstein, Seana Shiffrin and IDEAS host Paul Kennedy map out the perplexing and inescapable boundaries of political life. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:55 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060612_507.mp3 63379 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Three SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM Karl Polanyi was a life-long socialist, but he opposed the tyranny and bureaucracy of Communism just as strongly as the rule of the market. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:52 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060717_673.mp3 112621 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Five THE LEGACY In the last twenty-five years, what Karl Polanyi called, â€'the stark utopia” of a global, self-regulating market has replaced and overwhelmed independent, national economies. Series conclusion. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:50 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060731_675.mp3 132750 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Four THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN Karl Polanyi highlighted the novelty of the modern West by exploring how earlier societies had contained and subordinated markets. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:50 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060724_674.mp3 121620 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part One A marketplace whose â€'laws” determine social possibilities is the dominant economic idea of our time. David Cayley explores the thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this idea’s greatest critics. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:36 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060703_671.mp3 93472 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Mongrel cities are a twenty-first century reality. Multiculturalism is an ideal about the kind of country we want to be and how we might live together. But can multiculturalism overcome the tribal tendencies that often accompany immigration? In the UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, Leonie Sandercock, Professor of Urban Planning and Regional Policy at the University of British Columbia asks, is multiculturalism the solution or the problem? Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:33 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060814_904.mp3 149733 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ All the rules change in emergencies. Or do they? IDEAS host Paul Kennedy and philosophers Michael Blake, Sophia Moreau and Arthur Ripstein discuss urgent—and topical—questions. Listen. Before it's too late. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:27 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060821_905.mp3 157402 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Alexandre Trudeau deflates myths of Canada’s peacekeeping prowress during the Cold War and 1990s, and challenges us to become leaders in settling some of the today's messy conflicts. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:05:24 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20060828_906.mp3 166271 http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/ Pier Luigi Sacco teaches the economics of culture in Venice. He’s interested in concepts of post-industrial economics, co-operative enterprise and game theory. In a discussion recorded in Vancouver, he and social commentator Avi Lewis, talk about changing theories of economics as key to narrowing the gap between rich and poor. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:04:47 -0500 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20061120_1221.mp3 305083