New Books in Economics
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Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 11, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; July 05, 2025
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; July 03, 2025
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
Mark Blyth and NicolĂČ Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
55 mins; June 28, 2025
Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
44 mins; June 27, 2025
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
30 mins; June 23, 2025
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
47 mins; June 20, 2025
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
85 hours 27 mins; June 19, 2025
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
75 hours 1 min; June 17, 2025
Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024)
46 mins; June 16, 2025
Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
63 hours 52 mins; June 05, 2025
Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
26 mins; June 02, 2025
John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
105 hours 13 mins; June 01, 2025
Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
36 mins; May 31, 2025
Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
65 hours 27 mins; May 25, 2025
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 56 mins; May 21, 2025
Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
46 mins; May 19, 2025
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
57 mins; May 17, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 15, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
46 mins; May 14, 2025
Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024)
26 mins; May 12, 2025
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
49 mins; May 11, 2025
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 28 mins; May 10, 2025
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
73 hours 18 mins; May 09, 2025
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
41 mins; May 08, 2025
Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
89 hours 18 mins; May 07, 2025
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
69 hours 56 mins; May 05, 2025
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; May 05, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
51 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
59 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
64 hours 29 mins; May 01, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
49 mins; May 01, 2025
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; April 30, 2025
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
66 hours 18 mins; April 29, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
81 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
57 mins; April 26, 2025
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
74 hours 53 mins; April 22, 2025
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 21, 2025
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; April 19, 2025
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
48 mins; April 18, 2025
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
58 mins; April 17, 2025
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
36 mins; April 12, 2025
StÄle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
54 mins; April 10, 2025
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
55 mins; April 09, 2025
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
39 mins; April 03, 2025
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
35 mins; March 31, 2025
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
25 mins; March 25, 2025
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
59 mins; March 24, 2025
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
34 mins; March 23, 2025
Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
73 hours 36 mins; March 20, 2025
Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; March 19, 2025
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
43 mins; March 18, 2025
Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman, "Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices" (Yale UP, 2022)
54 mins; March 17, 2025
Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024)
33 mins; March 16, 2025
Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024)
27 mins; March 15, 2025
Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
46 mins; March 10, 2025
The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
54 mins; March 10, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
52 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)
63 hours 7 mins; March 06, 2025
S4E28 Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
43 mins; March 05, 2025
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
56 mins; March 04, 2025
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 02, 2025
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
62 hours 39 mins; February 27, 2025
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
38 mins; February 27, 2025
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
82 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)
47 mins; February 14, 2025
Agricultural and Resource Economics in Vietnam
25 mins; February 13, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 12, 2025
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
40 mins; February 11, 2025
Yuca Meubrink, "Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; February 07, 2025
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; February 07, 2025
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
33 mins; February 01, 2025
Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
57 mins; February 01, 2025
Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
62 hours 9 mins; January 31, 2025
Richard Vague, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
39 mins; January 31, 2025
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
72 hours 8 mins; January 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
47 mins; January 25, 2025
Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 6 mins; January 25, 2025
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
24 mins; January 24, 2025
Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
39 mins; January 19, 2025
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
87 hours 6 mins; January 05, 2025
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; January 05, 2025
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 21 mins; January 03, 2025
Enze Han, "The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2024)
27 mins; December 26, 2024
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
40 mins; December 25, 2024
Christine M. Larson, "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; December 24, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
90 hours 1 min; December 23, 2024
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
51 mins; December 22, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2024
Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
32 mins; December 16, 2024
Investing in Southeast Asia: Key insights for Australian Researchers
31 mins; December 13, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
49 mins; December 13, 2024
Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
31 mins; December 10, 2024