The Human Cost of Economic Sanctions
On this episode of American Prestige, Mark Weisbrot talks about economic sanctions and how they affect people’s lives.
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Economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Mark Weisbrot joins the show to talk about economic sanctions and how they affect people’s lives. They discuss the effect of sanctions on migration flows, how the PR about them targeting governments and not civilians is false, how the international financial system and dollar hegemony allow the US to sanction so freely, whether sanctions on other countries actually benefit ordinary Americans, whether tariffs can be considered a form of sanctions, and more.
Check out CEPR’s work for much more material on sanctions.
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks about US sanctions on Russia.
(Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images)Economist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Mark Weisbrot joins the show to talk about economic sanctions and how they affect people’s lives. They discuss the effect of sanctions on migration flows, how the PR about them targeting governments and not civilians is false, how the international financial system and dollar hegemony allow the US to sanction so freely, whether sanctions on other countries actually benefit ordinary Americans, whether tariffs can be considered a form of sanctions, and more.
Check out CEPR’s work for much more material on sanctions.
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