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Kristin Ciupa, "The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market" (Brill, 2026)

37 mins; March 29, 2026

Dovev Lavie, "The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (Routledge, 2023)

85 hours 3 mins; March 27, 2026

Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

68 hours 51 mins; March 25, 2026

Stephen G. Brooks, "The Political Economy of Security" (Princeton UP, 2026)

49 mins; March 22, 2026

Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, "Company Towns: Industry Power and the Historical Foundations of Public Mistrust" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

32 mins; March 22, 2026

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)

66 hours 35 mins; March 16, 2026

Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education

59 mins; March 06, 2026

Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

34 mins; March 02, 2026

Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

44 mins; March 02, 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 Deals That Changed the World" (Columbia Business School, 2024)

60 hours 25 mins; February 24, 2026

Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

50 mins; February 21, 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

Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)

52 mins; February 15, 2026

Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

58 mins; February 11, 2026

Ron Hayduk, "Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States" (Routledge, 2026)

30 mins; February 10, 2026

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)

56 mins; February 09, 2026

Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

60 hours 49 mins; February 05, 2026

Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)

55 mins; February 04, 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

Misty L. Heggeness, "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" (U California Press, 2026)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

38 mins; January 27, 2026

Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

32 mins; January 24, 2026

Colin Mayer, "Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them" (Oxford UP, 2024)

78 hours 2 mins; January 22, 2026

Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)

49 mins; January 19, 2026

Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)

44 mins; January 18, 2026

Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

60 hours 2 mins; January 16, 2026

Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)

34 mins; January 12, 2026

Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)

50 mins; January 11, 2026

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos

73 hours 52 mins; January 06, 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

Judd B. Kessler, "Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics of Getting More of What You Want" (Little, Brown Spark, 2025)

51 mins; January 03, 2026

Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)

60 hours 59 mins; December 25, 2025

Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)

55 mins; December 22, 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

Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact

82 hours 6 mins; November 24, 2025

Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)

50 mins; November 20, 2025

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

54 mins; November 19, 2025

Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

56 mins; November 19, 2025

Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

53 mins; November 18, 2025

Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)

28 mins; November 17, 2025

Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)

61 hours 15 mins; November 16, 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

Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025)

32 mins; November 13, 2025

Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)

77 hours 23 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

Loic De Canniere, "The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare" (Anthem, 2025)

67 hours 47 mins; November 04, 2025

Maxim Sytch, "The Influence Economy: Decoding Supplier-Induced Demand" (Oxford UP, 2025)

66 hours 59 mins; November 02, 2025

Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)

73 hours 59 mins; November 01, 2025

Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism

75 hours 27 mins; October 27, 2025

R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

44 mins; October 25, 2025

Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

44 mins; October 25, 2025

Teresa M. Mares and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, "Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain" (U California Press, 2025)

33 mins; October 22, 2025

Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)

46 mins; October 20, 2025

Lily Hsueh, "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" (MIT Press, 2025)

36 mins; October 17, 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

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

Angela Jones and Barbara G. Brents, "Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2024)

37 mins; October 05, 2025

John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

34 mins; September 26, 2025

J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)

59 mins; September 25, 2025

Edward Fishman, "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" (Portfolio, 2025)

60 hours 18 mins; September 23, 2025

Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

99 hours 40 mins; September 22, 2025

Susan Erikson, "Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance" (MIT Press, 2025)

35 mins; September 20, 2025

Our Common Future: The Birth of Liberal Environmentalism

68 hours 16 mins; September 19, 2025

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, "Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

66 hours 57 mins; September 11, 2025

Andrea Louise Campbell, "Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes" (Princeton UP, 2025)

57 mins; September 10, 2025

David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)

58 mins; September 05, 2025

Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025

Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)

30 mins; August 31, 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

Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition" (Routledge, 2021)

75 hours 53 mins; August 30, 2025

Thane Gustafson, "Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 18 mins; August 29, 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

Victoria Basualdo et al., "Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

50 mins; August 27, 2025

Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)

64 hours 0 mins; August 27, 2025

Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

43 mins; August 24, 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

Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks, "Command of Commerce: America's Enduring Economic Power Advantage over China" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; August 21, 2025

Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)

62 hours 25 mins; August 20, 2025

Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)

48 mins; August 20, 2025

Steve L. Monroe, "Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World" (Cornell UP, 2025)

24 mins; August 19, 2025

Alyssa Battistoni, "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2025)

91 hours 59 mins; August 18, 2025

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)

63 hours 8 mins; August 13, 2025

Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World

57 mins; August 12, 2025

Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)

58 mins; August 11, 2025

Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration

25 mins; August 08, 2025

Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling

46 mins; August 06, 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

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 26, 2025

Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)

41 mins; July 26, 2025

David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)

47 mins; July 17, 2025

Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)

61 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2025

Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)

52 mins; July 14, 2025

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