Marketplace of Ideas

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Welcome to Marketplace of Ideas! I’m Meher Sethi, and here I talk about morals, money, markets, monopolies, and machines. At the heart of my work is the question of distributive justice: how should wealth, power, and resources be distributed in a fair society?

Episodes

  1. 06/30/2025

    Trump's Big Beautiful Boon for Code Cartels

    June 30, 2025 -- Trump and Congressional Republicans' federal budget, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," seeks to gut all state laws regulating AI for the next ten years. This gives code cartels -- the colluders using algorithms to fix prices for rent, healthcare, and groceries -- a free pass and harms consumers. In this episode, I discuss the implications of the measure. This episode is a read-aloud of my essay, "The Congressional Budget Bill is One Big Beautiful Boon for Code Cartels," published in ProMarket here:

  2. 06/03/2025

    The Ghost of Capitalism Past

    December 27, 2024 -- This podcast reflects on the idea of corporate "greed" in political discourse, and argues we should our recast our focus from greed and avarice, towards the rules and institutions which make free market competition work.

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Welcome to Marketplace of Ideas! I’m Meher Sethi, and here I talk about morals, money, markets, monopolies, and machines. At the heart of my work is the question of distributive justice: how should wealth, power, and resources be distributed in a fair society?

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  • Creator
    m3h3r$
  • Years Active
    2025
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © m3h3r$
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    Marketplace of Ideas