New Books in Finance
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J. S. Nelson, "Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2021)
79 hours 3 mins; March 24, 2026
Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
46 mins; March 22, 2026
Jeremy Sosabowski: Community Leader and Entrepreneur
52 mins; March 04, 2026
Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)
54 mins; February 28, 2026
Paolo Zannoni, "Money and Promises: Seven ï»żDeals That Changed the World" (Columbia Business School, 2024)
60 hours 25 mins; February 24, 2026
Donald Chew, "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
74 hours 4 mins; February 18, 2026
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
56 mins; February 09, 2026
Gregory T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "China and the Global Economic Order" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
66 hours 15 mins; February 02, 2026
Robert Yee, "The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
36 mins; January 30, 2026
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
32 mins; January 24, 2026
Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
50 mins; January 11, 2026
David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
59 mins; January 05, 2026
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
36 mins; January 04, 2026
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
60 hours 59 mins; December 25, 2025
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
60 hours 59 mins; December 25, 2025
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; December 17, 2025
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)
61 hours 57 mins; December 16, 2025
Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)
51 mins; December 14, 2025
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
55 mins; November 29, 2025
Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company" (HBR Press, 2017)
55 mins; November 24, 2025
Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)
50 mins; November 20, 2025
Richard H. Thaler and Alex Imas, "The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; November 15, 2025
Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
52 mins; November 11, 2025
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; November 10, 2025
How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
70 hours 28 mins; November 10, 2025
Stuart Hart, "Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future" (Stanford Business Books, 2024)
76 hours 17 mins; October 22, 2025
Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
52 mins; October 17, 2025
Joe Wiggins, "The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds" (Harriman House, 2022)
66 hours 18 mins; October 16, 2025
Ethan A. Everett, "The Investment Philosophers: Financial Lessons from the Great Thinkers" (Columbia Business School, 2025)
77 hours 46 mins; October 13, 2025
Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
62 hours 40 mins; October 10, 2025
Michael Glass, "Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
62 hours 29 mins; October 07, 2025
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
55 mins; October 06, 2025
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
64 hours 55 mins; September 21, 2025
Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 20, 2025
Susan Erikson, "Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance" (MIT Press, 2025)
35 mins; September 20, 2025
Dan Davies, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; August 30, 2025
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; August 29, 2025
Angela C. Tozer, "The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73" (U of British Columbia Press, 2025)
67 hours 31 mins; August 22, 2025
Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)
48 mins; August 20, 2025
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
41 mins; August 20, 2025
Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
68 hours 10 mins; August 18, 2025
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
58 mins; August 11, 2025
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
62 hours 24 mins; August 02, 2025
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; July 26, 2025
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
59 mins; July 14, 2025
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
53 mins; July 11, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
51 mins; July 04, 2025
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
47 mins; July 03, 2025
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
60 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
Mark Blyth and NicolĂČ Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
51 mins; June 28, 2025
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
71 hours 1 min; June 17, 2025
Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
41 mins; May 24, 2025
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
51 mins; May 23, 2025
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
60 hours 56 mins; May 21, 2025
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
55 mins; May 17, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
44 mins; May 14, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
49 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
57 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
43 mins; May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
48 mins; May 01, 2025
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 30, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
78 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2025
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
35 mins; April 12, 2025
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 09, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
24 mins; March 25, 2025
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
57 mins; March 24, 2025
The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
52 mins; March 10, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
59 mins; March 08, 2025
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
17 mins; March 07, 2025
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 7 mins; March 06, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
79 hours 24 mins; February 18, 2025
Paul Podolsky, "The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to Live with Uncertainty and Learn to Think for Yourself" (Harriman House, 2024)
45 mins; February 14, 2025
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
32 mins; February 01, 2025
Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
55 mins; February 01, 2025
Richard Vague, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
37 mins; January 31, 2025
Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
59 mins; January 31, 2025
Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; January 25, 2025
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
44 mins; January 25, 2025
Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
37 mins; January 19, 2025
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
46 mins; January 10, 2025
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
82 hours 6 mins; January 05, 2025
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
47 mins; December 13, 2024
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
69 hours 53 mins; December 09, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
59 mins; December 01, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
69 hours 52 mins; November 24, 2024
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
81 hours 56 mins; November 18, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
43 mins; November 05, 2024
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
40 mins; November 03, 2024
Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
91 hours 5 mins; November 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
58 mins; November 01, 2024
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
75 hours 25 mins; October 31, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
50 mins; October 29, 2024
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
73 hours 26 mins; October 29, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
79 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
63 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
49 mins; October 25, 2024
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
42 mins; October 16, 2024
Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; October 15, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
73 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024