{"podcast":{"title":"Current Affairs","slug":"current-affairs-1140771","podcast_index_feed_id":1140771,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/6HSzsHPR","website_url":"http://www.currentaffairs.org","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a8e3828a-375e-49fd-973f-025700235a18/ddb430f0-40cf-4c6d-97bd-6ee26bf1a3eb/3000x3000/currentaffairs.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Current Affairs","episode_count":600,"summary":"A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T12:17:39.472417+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/current-affairs-1140771"},"episode":{"title":"Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself","slug":"money-is-a-measure-of-nothing-but-itself","published_at":"2026-06-09T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/current-affairs-1140771/money-is-a-measure-of-nothing-but-itself","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/current-affairs-1140771","url":"http://www.currentaffairs.org","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/40a1dc4d-22d4-4862-912d-9e9b9e98c6d9/e26bd405-faef-4e0b-9697-3600e4831623/episodes/audio/group/ceef1fab-77d3-461b-847e-e10208df6c05/group-item/8d572723-d80c-4fa5-a019-7b357f58d60f/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=6HSzsHPR","summary":"J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev are economists and authors of the new book Against Money. They join Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why money is so widely misunderstood, how it shapes our lives in ways we often fail to see, and how rethinking money can change the way we understand debt, austerity, inequality, foreign investment, housing, and the limits of mainstream economics.","meta_description":"J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev are economists and authors of the new book Against Money. They join Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to di…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2286,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/current-affairs-1140771/episodes/money-is-a-measure-of-nothing-but-itself/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/current-affairs-1140771/money-is-a-measure-of-nothing-but-itself.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}