The Last Economy

About The Last Economy

The Last Economyis a ten-episode English-language conversation podcast hosted by three voices from radically different worlds: Marcus Chen, a Silicon Valley tech journalist; Elena Vasquez, a sociologist who watches economists discover that humans don't read their textbooks; and James Morrison, a former Federal Reserve insider who's ready to talk about what really happens behind closed doors. Together, they trace a single arc across ten episodes — from the death of scarcity to the avalanche of white-collar obsolescence, from money that refuses to move to free money that breeds empty lives, from a new class war to the possibility of life after money itself. Each episode is a step on a staircase descending toward a logical endpoint: an "ultimate economy" where human labor is unnecessary, currency stagnates, and the old order dissolves. This is not an economics lecture. It's three smart people sitting around a table, holding coffee, occasionally laughing, occasionally falling silent — having the honest conversation you've been waiting for. They don't pretend to have answers. But they'll help you ask the questions you haven't dared to ask yet. For listeners who: care about AI's trajectory, feel something is broken in the economic system, want to know what tomorrow looks like, and have ever lain awake at 3 AM wondering —will my work still matter? English audio with bilingual subtitles. 25–40 minutes per episode. 10 episodes. One question: what comes after the last economy?

Publisher

正经八百的烂好人

Category

society & culture · technology

Language

zh

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_10_The_Last_Economy_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_08_Rewriting_the_Contract_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_09_Life_After_Money_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_07_The_New_Class_War_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_06_Free_Money_Empty_Lives_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_05_Money_That_Wont_Move_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_03_White_Collar_Avalanche_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_04_The_Deflation_Monster_audio

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   11 Aug 2026

   Episode_02_The_Pin_Factory_on_Steroids_audio

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    11 Aug 2026

    Episode_01_When_Scarcity_Dies_audio

    Cross-disciplinary collision, not an echo chamber. A Silicon Valley tech journalist, a sociologist, and a former Federal Reserve economist walk into a conversation. They disagree — often. Tech optimism collides with social critique. Monetary theory meets human anxiety. This isn't three people taking turns reading scripts. It's a real intellectual sparring match. From Keynes to AI — hardcore theory disguised as late-night talk show. Liquidity traps, the Fisher equation, balance sheet recessions, Marx's class theory — every heavyweight economic concept gets translated into human language. CPR on a corpse. A clogged water tank. Elvis leaving the building. You'll laugh through the explanation and freeze when the implication sinks in. Not prophecy. Deduction. Each episode starts from something that has already happened — negative interest rates, the gig economy, AI replacing white-collar work — and follows the logic to its endpoint. No fearmongering. No placebo. Just a map to the future, with every cliff clearly marked.

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