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Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
72 hours 53 mins; December 09, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
94 hours 12 mins; December 06, 2024
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
70 hours 4 mins; December 06, 2024
J. Mijin Cha, "A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future" (MIT Press, 2024)
27 mins; December 05, 2024
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; December 01, 2024
Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization
80 hours 28 mins; November 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
71 hours 52 mins; November 24, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
33 mins; November 21, 2024
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
84 hours 56 mins; November 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?
44 mins; November 15, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
70 hours 21 mins; November 13, 2024
Why Canât the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
48 mins; November 07, 2024
Emiliana Vegas, "Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
68 hours 31 mins; November 05, 2024
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
68 hours 5 mins; November 05, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
45 mins; November 05, 2024
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
81 hours 24 mins; November 04, 2024
Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
94 hours 5 mins; November 02, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Partyâs Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
60 hours 1 min; November 01, 2024
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
77 hours 25 mins; October 31, 2024
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; October 29, 2024
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
75 hours 26 mins; October 29, 2024
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
65 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2024
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
51 mins; October 25, 2024
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
71 hours 39 mins; October 24, 2024
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
57 mins; October 23, 2024
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 20, 2024
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
44 mins; October 16, 2024
S4E9 The Fragility of China: A Conversation with Dennis Unkovic
59 mins; October 09, 2024
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
32 mins; October 09, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024
Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)
60 hours 17 mins; October 01, 2024
Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)
63 hours 6 mins; September 27, 2024
Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; September 25, 2024
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
52 mins; September 25, 2024
Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
65 hours 13 mins; September 24, 2024
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
71 hours 58 mins; September 23, 2024
Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
69 hours 35 mins; September 22, 2024
Lisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; September 20, 2024
Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
67 hours 39 mins; September 19, 2024
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer" (U California Press, 2024)
51 mins; September 17, 2024
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; September 14, 2024
Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
68 hours 42 mins; September 14, 2024
Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 07, 2024
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 9 mins; September 03, 2024
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 01, 2024
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
54 mins; August 28, 2024
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
68 hours 25 mins; August 26, 2024
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 44 mins; August 25, 2024
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
80 hours 1 min; August 22, 2024
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
64 hours 43 mins; August 20, 2024
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
59 mins; August 20, 2024
Nick Grono, "How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World" (BenBella Books, 2024)
75 hours 11 mins; August 16, 2024
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
42 mins; August 16, 2024
Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)
29 mins; August 15, 2024
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; August 14, 2024
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
56 mins; August 13, 2024
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
85 hours 35 mins; August 12, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
39 mins; August 11, 2024
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
72 hours 6 mins; August 10, 2024
Arif Hasan, "The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; August 10, 2024
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
54 mins; August 09, 2024
Paul Volcker: âThe only number that works is zeroâ
49 mins; August 09, 2024
Claudia Strauss, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" (ILR Press, 2024)
61 hours 6 mins; August 09, 2024
Daniel Kahnemanâs Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
65 hours 15 mins; August 09, 2024
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
89 hours 37 mins; August 08, 2024
Arthur Burns: âThe smartest guy in the roomâ
47 mins; August 08, 2024
Bill Martin: âTruman looked at him and said: âTraitorââ
48 mins; August 07, 2024
Marriner Eccles: Reform âmay not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been thereâ
64 hours 29 mins; August 06, 2024
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; August 05, 2024
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
72 hours 28 mins; July 31, 2024
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
55 mins; July 20, 2024
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
54 mins; July 19, 2024
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
78 hours 3 mins; July 08, 2024
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
66 hours 23 mins; July 03, 2024
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
66 hours 31 mins; July 02, 2024
Work-from-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-pandemic Work Policies