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Algy Hall, "Four Ways to Beat the Market: A Practical Guide to Stock-Screening Strategies to Help You Pick Winning Shares" (Harriman House, 2023)
74 hours 40 mins; June 28, 2023
John M. Jennings, "The Uncertainty Solution: How to Invest with Confidence in the Face of the Unknown" (Greenleaf Book Group, 2023)
35 mins; June 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
38 mins; June 20, 2023
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2023
Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
51 mins; June 08, 2023
Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; June 02, 2023
William J. Bernstein, "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" (Grove Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 28, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 28, 2023
Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel, "The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?" (Routledge, 2023)
76 hours 6 mins; May 24, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
40 mins; May 22, 2023
Inflation, Past and Present: A Conversation with Tyler Goodspeed
43 mins; May 19, 2023
Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
74 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2023
Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
50 mins; April 17, 2023
Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
60 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023
Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
50 mins; April 15, 2023
Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
45 mins; April 09, 2023
James J. Park, "The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; April 07, 2023
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; April 06, 2023
Robert L. Hetzel, "Does the FOMC Have a Viable Strategy for Controlling Inflation?" (2023)
54 mins; March 25, 2023
Leon Wansleben, "The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
60 hours 14 mins; March 23, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
43 mins; March 23, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
78 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2023
Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
34 mins; February 20, 2023
Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)
60 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2023
Victor Roy, "Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines" (U California Press, 2023)
53 mins; February 17, 2023
The History of Student Loans in the United States
65 hours 53 mins; February 14, 2023
Rowan Dorin, "No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe" (Princeton UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 05, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
41 mins; February 02, 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
51 mins; January 24, 2023
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
68 hours 57 mins; January 21, 2023
Automating Finance
56 mins; January 19, 2023
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
47 mins; December 21, 2022
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
62 hours 31 mins; December 19, 2022
Quentin Bruneau, "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New" (Columbia UP, 2022)
50 mins; December 18, 2022
Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm" (Doubleday, 2022)
34 mins; December 16, 2022
Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
60 hours 34 mins; December 14, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
50 mins; December 09, 2022
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
101 hours 8 mins; December 08, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
63 hours 49 mins; December 04, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2022
Tim Walker and Lucian Morris, "The Handbook of Banking Technology" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
81 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Louise Ashley, "Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work" (Bristol UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 17, 2022
Ghassan Moazzin, "Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 07, 2022
Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
41 mins; November 02, 2022
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing Londonâs Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
49 mins; November 01, 2022
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
27 mins; November 01, 2022
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
61 hours 47 mins; November 01, 2022
Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
41 mins; October 17, 2022
Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022)
45 mins; October 06, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
61 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society" (Little Brown, 2019)
40 mins; September 22, 2022
Jamie Martin, "The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance" (Harvard UP, 2022)
70 hours 46 mins; September 21, 2022
Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Studentsâand Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
48 mins; September 06, 2022
J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
58 mins; September 05, 2022
Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies
27 mins; August 31, 2022
Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
55 mins; August 31, 2022
Howard Yaruss, "Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
55 mins; August 31, 2022
Becky O'Connor, "The ESG Investing Handbook: Insights and Developments in Environmental, Social and Governance Investment" (Harriman House, 2022)
61 hours 13 mins; August 25, 2022
Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
64 hours 15 mins; August 24, 2022
Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
64 hours 36 mins; August 17, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
39 mins; August 16, 2022
Ann Garcia, "How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education" (Harriman House, 2022)
64 hours 39 mins; August 10, 2022
Didac Queralt, "Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
64 hours 51 mins; July 28, 2022
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad SchoolâBut Didnât" (MIT Press, 2022)
45 mins; July 21, 2022
Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 05, 2022
Does Financial Repression Work?
63 hours 31 mins; June 28, 2022
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
71 hours 19 mins; June 09, 2022
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
73 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas, "Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony" (Oxford UP. 2021)
58 mins; May 31, 2022
Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
53 mins; May 31, 2022
Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens, "The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game" (HBRP, 2022)
33 mins; April 28, 2022
Larry E. Swedroe and Samuel C. Adams, "Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing" (Harriman House, 2022)
60 hours 24 mins; April 28, 2022
Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
47 mins; April 26, 2022
Mary Childs, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
40 mins; April 20, 2022
Cindy Couyoumjian, "The Rise of Women and Wealth: Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future" (Greenleaf, 2022)
23 mins; April 19, 2022
Debt
18 mins; April 18, 2022
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
59 mins; April 15, 2022
Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)
47 mins; April 14, 2022
R. Douglas Arnold, "Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age" (Princeton UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 08, 2022
Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen, "One Road to Riches?: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
40 mins; April 05, 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
59 mins; April 05, 2022
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
52 mins; April 05, 2022
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U of California Press, 2022)
40 mins; April 04, 2022
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
55 mins; April 04, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
89 hours 25 mins; March 31, 2022
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
76 hours 5 mins; March 30, 2022
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
42 mins; March 29, 2022
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
47 mins; March 22, 2022
Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
46 mins; March 15, 2022
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
56 mins; March 11, 2022
Fabio Mattioli, "Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
72 hours 40 mins; March 07, 2022
Spencer Jakab, "The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors" (Penguin, 2022)
59 mins; January 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
46 mins; January 20, 2022
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
97 hours 25 mins; December 29, 2021
Tobias F. RĂśtheli, "The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; December 28, 2021
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
54 mins; December 27, 2021
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economâics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
75 hours 18 mins; December 20, 2021
Carlo D'Ippoliti, "Democratizing the Economics Debate: Pluralism and Research Evaluation" (Routledge, 2020)