Noam Chomsky for Age of Economics - Full interview
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2024
- Age of Economics: in the first part of this project a diverse group of global thinkers answers 8 fundamental questions about economics and capitalist civilization. (Interview number 6)
0:00 - Prologue
01:31 - Intro
01:49 - 1. Why does economics matter?
07:33 - 2. What are the differences between economic science and economic engineering?
18:35 - 3. What role does economics play in society? Does it serve the common good?
26:42 - 4. Economics provides answers to problems related to markets, efficiency, profits, consumption and economic growth. Does economics do a good job in addressing the other issues people care about: climate change and the wider environment, the role of technology in society, issues of race and class, pandemics, etc.?
30:46 - 5. As we live in an age of economics and economists - in which economic developments feature prominently in our lives and economists have major influence over a wide range of policy and people - should economists be held accountable for their advice?
33:54 - 6. Does economics explain Capitalism? How would you define Capitalism?
40:22 - 7. No human system to date has so far been able to endure indefinitely - not ancient Egypt or Rome, not Feudal China or Europe, not the USSR. What about global Capitalism: can it survive in its current form?
44:54 - 8. Is Capitalism, or whatever we should call the current system, the best one to serve the needs of humanity, or can we imagine another one?
About Noam Chomsky
American. Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist
Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and is one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media.
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Interview by Fabio Dondero and Julian Karaguesian
Music: J.S. Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano. Video by Fabio Dondero
Recorded December 2020
A great interview with my intellectual hero for 40 years. Noam always shows what practical steps we can take to bring about a better world.
ua-cam.com/video/IuDY8m72tgk/v-deo.html dao and flow answer ?
Like rounding up everyone who dared to stand up for bodily autonomy and wouldn't take a experimental vaccine?, that was a great highpoint of his.
I have to watch everything by Chomsky multiple times. He’s quick and he gives you so much information to process.
And he has an ancient habit of giving the reference of what he is saying, of a time when people had to justify what they said not only say it. Good times.
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Thanks again professor
I want to send you one of my books
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@christianerehem He is remarkable in this respect, not just the enormity of his erudition. Good luck to anyone trying to find any holes in his reasoning or his references. But there is one thing I do not understand which is, why is he not as concerned about, for simplicity's sake, 'woke' as I am? Does he see it as just part and parcel of the breakdown of our 'sense-making'? Which he does cite as one of the three greatest threats to our survival?
Best teacher ever since the times of Socrates. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏
@@hinteregions *A matter of global and existential priorities ?
What a teacher Chomsky has been to me, for me, for so long now; I am eternally grateful, so very grateful. The journey has been priceless.
At the time, this great man was 94 years of age. 94!!! His recollection of dates, times, history, economics amongst many other topics is incredible. He would put men a quarter of his age to shame. IMO he is a living prodigy. All policy makers should be listening and shaping his ideas into reality. What a better world it would be.
Gotta say, my Dad , at 96, had the same razor sharp , clear thinking mind with excellent recall and detailed memory. Most of us have that natural ability. Many expect to lose abilities, to become old with time, and realize those expectations both mentally and physically. Better to emulate this kind of person intellectually and someone like Jack La Lane physically.
He is with us today out of sheer devotion to his life's calling. 🎉
Wisdom is not a word I take lightly. As if this man hadn't been a luminary of human cognition all along, with old age he gives us these words, distilled jewels to venerate on an altar. I hope we listen.
Seriously tho. He’s been in the game foreverrrr and still going strong. True wisdom.
@@MT-ok9xv🙏🏻♥️🙏🏽♥️🙏 Such a unique treasure for humankind - the legendary ‘modern Socrates.’
I always learn so much when I listen to Chomsky. The man is a university.👍
He’s THE University… 😉
Noam Chomsky dislikes being pedestaled I imagine, despite the fierce veracity of what he speaks, about the 19th century through 21st century United States enslavement of workers, the embargoes US have been imposing on the gulf and those of the countries whose people are undergoing immense economic hardship. Chomsky also has the passion to be challenged and questioned whilst he strongly urges against different forms of capitalism that have proven as nefarious as amounting to disempowerment of labourers and their unionisation. Noam has a plenty more intellectual honesty and kindness to offer to the spheres of humanitarian education, as he is forthright in his appeals for the underdogs and underprivileged. May his students follow in his footsteps and continue to question the authorities of neoliberalism, their imperialistic structures.
I RESPECT ✊🏾 CHOMSKY!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😌😌😌😌🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🔒💯🇰🇳🇵🇷🇺🇸
Ty for this interview of this wonderful man 🙏
Noam is definately irreplaceable
He's an out of touch monster. Wake up.
If we could download one man's consciousness so that it would forever be with us to consult, Noam Chomsky would be my choice.
It's almost impossible to believe that he's 94, with how clear-headed and articulate he still is. I'm sure he has some old-age issues, like short-term memory problems, but it wouldn't surprise me if even those are much less severe than most people his age. Maybe this is the result of a life dedicated to thinking about truth, instead of the usual nonsense most people fill their heads with!
Agreed.
Definitely. As long as the e-cloud will exist, his unique lucid mind will remain with us all - the (un)happy few…
I find that most of chomskys critics either don’t understand his points or distort what he actually says. What I hear from him is a very straightforward account of the actual system. we have, how it functions and how we got here.
@@humanbeing5300 Chomsky has critics. That's for sure. What's of note, however, is how corrupt his critics are, and the more critical they are, the more corrupted they are. That's point number one. For point number two, I'm going to put it as a question. So, even if we accept that Chomski's critics are corrupt, does their questioning, bashing, etc., raise the level of the discussion? Of course not. Do you know why? If you think you know, please feel free to comment.
So sharp still. Thanks for everything Noam!
What a mind, what a voice!
@@janpierzchala2004 👌🏻👌🏽👌
"The role of the private sector is solely self-enrichment, that's ideology, not stupidity". Interesting indeed
It's no accident that political economy is difficult to understand. It keeps us Plebs in our place. 😵💫
It amazes me greatly how I go from living an average lifestyle to making over 63k per month
I've learned a lot over the past few years that there are plenty of opportunities in the financial markets; all it takes is just to focus on the right thing. Credits to Zach Micah Demers
That's a lot of money you're making. How do you do this on a regular basis? You have to be a trading genius.
You can certainly earn well with a good start-up capital. I take profits every week, and I've made a lot of money investing with Sir Zach Micah Demers, but your results are dependent on your investment capital.
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How can I reach him?
Search his full name
Thank you.x
I definitely agree with the idea of CAREFUL implementation of any change on large scale. This is in a stark contrast with CARELESS or RADICAL change implementation ideas. I would add also the consideration of time scale. Observe the implemented change on a small scale in different time scales (over few generations, at least) before you announce you have something to offer to the public. Importantly, always start the experimentation on yourself.
as always , my guru. I highly
recommend to you all to find his recent Q and A with the university of Arizona it’s on youtube already. It’s difficult to hear what he has to say. But I know he’s right . I’m willing to work with anyone out there who wants to try and save us from ourselves …….
I hope he's doing well. It would be interesting to hear his take on some of the current US domestic issues.
The Analysis news- Chomsky and Ellsberg have a two part take on the present dangers in the US.
> Trump Bad
> Right-wing Bad
There, I gave you his thinking, for free even.
Thx for this interview!!
Thanks!
Wow Noam Chomsky thanks for making this available! When was this recorded?
December 2020
@@AgeofEconomics thank you for giving the date
Why do you present this(with no date for this interview) as if it was just done recently? This is almost 4 years old.
The most important part of anything that is downloaded onto the internet(other than the actual content) is the date of the event, interview, report, etc. Why would you, as someone who cares enough to download something they must believe will be informative and of value, not see the value in identifying when this interview took place?
This simple standard of properly dating something really should be understood by everyone by now so it's quite maddening to see that it is not. Even in journalistic circles.
Thank you for this information. I was curious as to how old this interview was.
Thanks David for your comment. Why we didn’t specify that this interview wasn’t done recently? Honestly, one of the reasons was that we didn’t think that this was really important. Every video on UA-cam is old in the moment when it is published, it doesn’t mean that it is loosing it’s importance or it’s value. The aim of our non-profit project is a discussion about fundamental questions (e.g.: Why does economics matters?), not about daily newsfeeds. Another one is that we simply forgot. Anyways, in the description the date of recording was added.
By the way: time is relative, yes, but not too much: the interview with Prof. Chomsky was recorded in December 2020, that means from today 2 years and 3 months ago. Not almost 4. Anyways, thanks again for your contribution.
@@AgeofEconomics Thank you ! I frequently revisit Chomsky's interviews and talks. Learning doesn't have a time limit.
@@AgeofEconomics 2 years of coofid seemed like 4 to many. And Chomsky like the majority got it wrong
Swing and a miss.
I wish the volume were higher bc it's very difficult to hear what Noam is saying.
I’ve always loved the very pace and tone of his voice, which also force us to focus our full attention on the meaning of every word. How fascinating to follow the inexorable unfolding of his mind. Kind of sounds like listening to the mechanism of his brain at work. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏
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The titles and words that comes between the topics are too small. Please make them bigger.
The piano is from Wohltempierte Clavier by Bach
Yes, Kimiko Ishizaka is playing.
Joseph Schumpeter, the great Austrian economist was an important and influential proponent and developer of the then emerging branch of economics called Economic History. He contrasted Socialism Capitalism and Democracy in his book from the mid 30s with that title.
He contrasted the two economic systems and wrote that pure capitalism was the superior driver of growth. He posited that the undoing of capitalism would be the greed and self serving of the entrepreneurs who drive the capitalist economy.
Socialism, on the other hand, is much more responsive to the social and physical needs of the people yet is weaker as an economic driver.
The solution he proposed was based on the Hegelian Dialect which is; Thesis versus Antithesis yields a Synthesis.
In other words, a blending of the two systems in a new Social Democracy will emerge from a combination of regulated capitalism and socialism that will be a society that provide economic security and prosperity along with a safety net for all of society, sometime in a future democracy.
If you can imagine it, some day it might happen.
In fact, there is no strictly economic or market mechanism whereby wages (the price of the right to use labor-power for a time) co-vary with the value productivity of *labor*. The whole *point* of the capitalist purchase and use of people's labor-power for a time to extract and appropriate labor with which to produce commodities for sale at a profit is to NOT pay pari passu more for the use of labor-power to appropriate more actual value-producing labor.
What or who is pari passu?
Greatful for Chomsky interviews / lectures.
We will be researching, and learning from the sagacious teachings, and words of Noam Chomsky for a long time to come ❤️🤓👍.
If you just look at fuel consumption of the pentagon is that government working for environment?
You should invite on Jonathan Nitzan and/or Shimshon Bichler. They are radical political economists with interesting ideas on economics and capitalism
Sure. They're full of it, faux radicals.
Everything I don't like is Capitalism!
But everything I like is touched by the gentle hand of the State 😇!
Read a book
One other aspect of capitalism is growth. Capital is only capital when it is reinvested to create further growth of capital. Without growth it dies. Achievement of capitalist growth relies on exploitation of workers and the environment.
My Personal List of Questions to Noam Chomsky:
Professor Chomsky, could you please outline your views on the concept of "universal grammar" and its implications for linguistic theory?
What led you to your critique of behaviorism, and how do you perceive its relevance today in the field of psychology?
Could you expound on the 'Chomsky hierarchy' and its application in the current understanding of formal languages?
Can you share your thoughts on the connection between language development and cognitive processes?
What role do you believe language plays in shaping our individual and collective identities?
How has the field of linguistics evolved since you first began your research, and where do you see it heading in the future?
Can you elaborate on your views regarding the 'poverty of the stimulus' argument?
What are your thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence in studying linguistic and cognitive processes?
Could you comment on how social factors influence language development and variation?
How do you view the relationship between philosophy, psychology, and linguistics in understanding the human mind?
You've often spoken about the role of media in shaping public opinion. Could you elaborate on this?
How do you relate your political ideologies with your theories in linguistics and cognitive science?
Can you share your insights on how language might influence our understanding and perception of reality?
What's your take on the current state of interdisciplinary studies between linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence?
Could you share your thoughts on the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
You've critiqued the 'innateness hypothesis' in language acquisition. Can you elaborate on your views?
Can you comment on the importance of critical thinking in today's educational systems?
What are your views on the concept of 'free will' in the context of linguistic behavior?
Could you discuss the importance of syntax in our understanding of language structure?
How do you see the role of neuroscience in furthering our understanding of language and cognition?
What are your thoughts on how digital communication is affecting language use and evolution?
Could you elaborate on your views about the relationship between language, thought, and culture?
How do you view the impact of your work in the field of cognitive science and beyond?
Could you discuss the challenges you've faced in your career and how they've shaped your work?
Finally, Professor Chomsky, what advice would you give to aspiring linguists and cognitive scientists today?
What's that intro music ?
J.S. Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano.
Thanx and good interview. Hopefully one day you get richard wolff and micheal hudson
When you look at earth. Even with mont everest the earth is smoother than any bowl we are able to craft. We are kinda get what we try to hide.
If everyone in the world gave 1 second off their life span to add to chomskys, hed live forever.
Milton Friedman = monster
Timeless Wisdom from Noam Chomsky- may we listen , analyze , learn , act for the common good 🦅 ☮️ (edit: Thank You Noam , Sir ! )
So WONDERFUL to see this guy looking so ancient. Soon he'll be gone and forgotten
Fingers Crossed!
It’s so hard to hear what he’s saying
Memory map: (working list)
/base, /face, /name /case /stave
/bank
40:09
Thumbnail of Chomsky:
"Change da World; My Final message"
Meme when?
He actually said he wants " I tried my best" on his tombstone
Please post the date of an interview like this in future. I was ten mins in when I realised I had heard it before, so you could waste my time for your own clicks. Annoying .
Social engineering or economic engineering is responsible for what free markets or unregulated capitalism which is more accurate corporate investor rights for large companies this is what the neoliberal period brought abought, I was lucky that I had skills as a physicist and applied mathematician and worked for defense contractors and before that as a medical chemist and laboratory pathologist would of stayed at University of SUNY but there was no more research being done on theoretical theory of the unified field theory computer models are useless in these fields.
Upgrade the AI.
Sharing will save the world.
What does this reader know about building and running a useful business?
“The greater good”
The answer is 'nothing'.
Noam Chomsky is of the class of people who have seated in a chair their whole life and never had to do the work needed to make society actually function.
That's why it's so easy for them to make scenarios and demonize everyone else, they have no idea of what it takes to build, lead, and profit.
@@TheControlBlue ,
Thank You! Could not have said better myself!
"He had the problem most intellectuals have, that of being completely ineffectual"
Explain?
He is the most quoted intellectual, and thought of as the farther of modern linguistics, tireless political activist. What have you done!
@@rosewoodsam lotta good that's done us 😛
@@WMA31780intellectuals don’t always have the desired impact they should during their life. It is decades after they pass that we truly recognise the body of work carried out during their life time.
@@WMA31780 Noam has helped with struggles in all corners of the world, his work will continue to be read and help long after he is dead. You're simply incorrect and it makes you sound like a moron! come on mate you can do better than that.
Common good. World is self- entertining. We all die and he still be spinning.
I remember him saying something about voting for Biden to keep us out of nuclear war. Oh, something about medical stuff.
Oh btw he’s admitted he had no friends in HS!! Surprising?? Of course not !! Telling!!
SPIVOCRACY 👎 CHOMSKY 👍 (from Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉😉
The Socrates of our time, ostracized by the media of the profiteers, should be on every channel, every school, every forum to educate all on how to create, maintain and spread a happy, DEMOCRATIC society representing the real interests of all the people, including that of the profiteers.
LOL Yes what a better world it would be if everyone took more seriously the views of this egghead academic, with ZERO actual training or experience in any field outside Linguistics, and has NEVER held a job in the real world, and who became a multi-millionaire himself via the same Capitalist/Corporate System that he has spent his entire career bashing!
Let me know when you’re ready to come back to reality-OK? 😀
Noam fails the 1st question. Guess why we're fucked.
Your mom had other plans that night
We forgive her
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What is up with these bullshit con artist comments? Bugger off muppets
there should be a warning to play him at or above 1.5×speed, to avoid drowsiness.
it adds a nice sense of urgency and makes him sound younger.
OLO , no joke.
This is not a laughing matter, I have nothing but respect for Chomsky who is telling the world truths that they may disregard at their absolute peril. Being old and speaking slowly may not be privilege afforded to billions of people because they have not listened to someone who exudes truth and wisdom.
Let’s put a 1.5x or greater on your lifespan.
ya. time is short for some people to catch up on these matters. it is difficult to get a labor class to watch in a word of short videos.
thanks for supporting our next president.
@@robertakre7725 3.0x for you is about right.
Sure, if you're unable to figure that out on your own.
The east of Europe was after the war on socialist system for more then 40 years and didn't work as well ,no neoliberal economy. The capitalism system is just from the middle of 90s which has been made some good improvement in the social and infrastructure life. It is not perfect, but what's the alternative? Make everything belong to the states?
I don't always agree with NC on all issues. But here he once again shows himself to be a guiding light on matters related to economic organization and economic and social justice. Unfortunately, he's still indispensable.
Normal ar fi sa spuna Chomsky ceva aici pe UA-cam. Asta este "tare." Mai "slab" este sa se cam stie cine modereaza. Altminteri e clar tocana de melci. Clar.
The job of economists should be to help society maximize material welfare/standard of living (maximum outputs with minimum inputs). In reality, the vast majority of them think their job is to redistribute income from the high earners/highly productive to the low earners/low productive.
That's a funny comment. Economists have been extremely unsuccessful, haven't they, if you evaluate their jobs by that metric: "redistribute income from the high earners/highly productive to the low earners/low productive."
cLAre diD HeR oWn reSeaRcH!
@@MikBak1814 You'll notice, I said "they think their jobs . . ", I didn't say they had accomplished it, right?
@@clarestucki5151 It's a ludicrous notion. I'm no big fan of Keynesian economics, but the ushering in of the neoclassical period by 'economists' such as Milton Friedman has meant, empirically speaking, that they've done exactly the opposite, and to argue that they 'thought' they were doing otherwise is pure delusion.
In reality, most economists do the opposite. I'm just considering the current results.
So, this mathematician, declared "linguist and philosopher" by the Soviets and Arafats is an economist too? Sure. he is.
Stenographers for Power=Brown-No$ers
Man, how scared of actual work must you be to think work is akin to slavery.
You get to have a wage, stop whining and do something with your life!
Wage slavery is not the same as meaningful work. It's the most important and main part of life he said before.
@@lelz0394 ,
LOL Well Chomsky does not have to worry about supposed, ' wage slavery ', himself, because he became a multi-millionaire via the very same Capitalist/Corporate System that he loves to bash so much!
I wonder how much of Chomsky's own money he donated to all the, ' wage slaves ', at MIT, or at the publishers of his books, or at the venues where he lectures?
Strange he never talks about that... 😀
He'll yeah. I wanna work at McDonald's my whole life.
Twisting his words harder than your hips at the docks
Utterly vacuous.
His superfans and Chomsky himself have never run a business nor do they know what it takes. It is so easy to sit here and talk and use all these big terms and descriptions.
True Noam took the easy way out becoming the foremost linguistics thinker of the second half of the 20th century while simultaneously being even more famous for political activism and writing a hundred academic books and thousands of peer reviewed articles and now being 94 doing lengthy interviews and still teaching. The guy who runs the new vape shop up the street has had to do much harder things
@@wngbjngwwgk Lol; well done.
@@wngbjngwwgk and now we see the separation and contempt
I dont think he is against business.
Austin why don’t you see about having a debate with Mr Chomsky and make your case. Only one possible ending and that is you coming out looking like a bitch.
Why didn't this genleman get the nobel prize?!!!
He's devoted his life to justice and outright pointing and you pretend he doesn't exist. Give him a lifetime achievement award, specifically for the contribution of media grammar !! and the founder of this specification to the field !!
You should ask him why he is so adamant about denying the genocide of non Serbs during the Yugoslav war
Yes, spread your rumors!
It must be irksome not to get all the credit you desire for orchestrating the genocide of non-Serbs during the Yugoslav war.
who cares? so boring.
still babbling his socialist communist rhetoric.
Love how you types can never refute what he says directly, or provide an argument. Only a vague criticism of his “rhetoric,” where once you hear the word “socialism” you can immediately discredit him and stop listening because you’ve built a mental wall around these discussions and are too closed minded to even consider what he says.
You say of the man who compares Bolshevism to Fascism.
Actually calling Chomsky a, ' socialist communist ', is an unfair insult!
-To socialists & communists! 😀
Mumbles Chomsky was so difficult to understand that I wanted to throw my iPad out the window. Horrible presentation, it’s annoying.
He's 94. Use the captions. That's what I do. He's perfectly lucid in the actual words but yea can't really expect high quality sound from a 94 year old
Turn up the volume-or, better yet, throw yourself out the window.
Not nearly as annoying as your comment. Use captions. Petty problem solved.
www.ageofeconomics.org/interviews/noam-chomsky/
Feel free to throw your iPad out the window. If you are so lame as to think that the fact that Chomsky should be shamed because he isn't "performing" up to your standard, then you don't deserve modern technology.