On this episode of METALOMICS, we discuss the phenomenon of monopoly and how monopolistic markets behave. What can we expect in a monopolistic market? What is the effect on consumers? The quality of the goods and services sold? The price? The quantity? How would a monopoly behave in the market for concert tickets? What if, for all intents and purposes, you could only buy concert tickets from just one seller? What if everyone who attended a concert gained access from the same entity? What if, in the dimly lit concert hall, it is more than the music that brought everyone together? What great power, what great responsibility. To borrow a sentiment from Tolkien, this one entity would have the power to rule them all, to find them, to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Economics is Metal!

Music: xBound in Bloodx - If It’s a Mess

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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On this episode of METALOMICS, we explore how society values, or rather devalues, the musician. How the spoils of the music war are divvied up, and how musicians can navigate an increasingly perilous and complex terrain to realize financial sustainability. The ultimate question we ask is this: Can the musician overcome the stigma that beats down on the beggar and the artist alike?

Economics is Metal!

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Whole World Wept - Guilt Trails

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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A central purpose of economics is the study of how scarce resources are allocated. How raw materials are appropriated from nature and transformed into goods, how people organize to deliver services, how people and things come together to create new things for themselves and others. It is very much a study of inputs and outputs. When a particular output requires a minimum of inputs, this process is considered efficient. It means that, with the available technology and capital, the output could not be achieved with fewer inputs. But what happens when technology allows for greater efficiency? What happens when the input required to, say, operate a steam locomotive is drastically reduced? Your intuition may lead you to surmise that total consumption of that input would decrease, ceteris paribus (all other things being equal, that is). The truth of the matter is, it may not be that simple. In fact, that very opposite may be true, and to a very dangerous effect. At least that’s what William Stanley Jevons argued, and we are still talking about it more than a century and a half later.

Economics is Metal!

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Monsters - Will of Igris

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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In this edition of METALOMICS, we investigate what many believe to be the most essential force within economics: value. What is value? Where does it come from? And how does it operate as a nudger and budger of economic activity? We explore the classic, more abstract concepts of value and combine it with a practical commercial understanding - that is to say, the marketing perspective. We hope that by framing value between essential human desire and its use as a driver of market activity, we can corner it, dissect it, and better understand it.

Economics is Metal!

Music: ⁠⁠⁠ Mouth Full of Glass - Cleanse This Earth

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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Flock Safety, with its expanding nodes, represents the most current and potentially dangerous manifestation of mass surveillance we have ever seen. On this episode of METALOMICS, we weigh what it is we are gaining with what we are losing, by staring back into the spying eyes found on a growing number of human haunts.

Economics is Metal!

Music: ⁠ XDanielLarsonX - Plague Walker

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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Other Music:

Hatchet Face - Before the Blast

Your opinion on immigration is lacking nuance. Yeah, we said it. But if you’re reading this, you’re in luck. Because here on the Metalomics Podcast, we are trying to make nuance cool; and looking at immigration through an economic lens is a good place to start. On this episode, we continue our deep dive into the complex phenomena that is immigration, and hope that you, the lucky listener, will leave feeling more informed than ever about this important topic.

Economics is Metal!

Music: Rottenness - Muerto a Los Conquistadores

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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Other Music: Spring Mvt 1 Allegro by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players

You probably have an opinion on immigration; or at least you’ve heard someone else’s. It’s just as likely these opinions appear in their final form, bereft of the logic or details that support them. In this episode, we interrogate the particulars of people’s opinions on immigration, and map where those opinions land on the political spectrum. We hope you’ll join us in questioning how these opinions are formed, and, more importantly, whether or not these opinions really belong to you. Wherever you think you’re at on the issue of immigration, you may reconsider after hearing this episode. We downright encourage it.

Economics is Metal!

Music: Devitalized ⁠ - Signed In Blood

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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So, we are going to own nothing. Who cares!? If giving up my right to hold on to a CD or vinyl or cassette means I get access to the celestial jukebox and the infinite volumes floating inside, what’s the big deal? “Sounds like a fair trade for something as “trivial” as music,” you may say. Well, we at METALOMICS don’t think music is trivial at all. In fact, we believe quite the opposite. But if we had one retort to this straw man argument, it would be this: When it comes to owning nothing, just how much nothing are we willing to own? Join us on today’s episode as we extend our analysis beyond subscription music and conclude this 3-part series by examining the true costs and benefits of serving the newest generation of feudal lords.

Economics is Metal!

Music: The Stygian Complex - Misery Sequence

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Hosts: Josh Goddard & David Ingram

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