New Books in Economics
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Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
39 mins; May 21, 2024
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
42 mins; May 20, 2024
Elise Andaya, "Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice" (NYU Press, 2024)
34 mins; May 19, 2024
Marina Welker, "Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia" (U California Press, 2024)
39 mins; May 18, 2024
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
62 hours 7 mins; May 16, 2024
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
79 hours 56 mins; May 16, 2024
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
47 mins; May 16, 2024
The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson
32 mins; May 16, 2024
José Ciro Martínez, "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan" (Stanford UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 15, 2024
Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, "Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 mins; May 15, 2024
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
61 hours 56 mins; May 14, 2024
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
38 mins; May 13, 2024
Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
37 mins; May 13, 2024
Kate Maclean, "Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
61 hours 22 mins; May 11, 2024
Alyxandra Vesey, "Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
85 hours 9 mins; May 11, 2024
Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)
63 hours 29 mins; May 11, 2024
Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)
39 mins; May 10, 2024
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
62 hours 4 mins; May 05, 2024
Céline BessiÚre and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
63 hours 52 mins; May 03, 2024
John J. Berger, "Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth" (Seven Stories Press, 2023)
47 mins; May 03, 2024
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)
40 mins; April 30, 2024
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
46 mins; April 30, 2024
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
67 hours 33 mins; April 29, 2024
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; April 28, 2024
John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
38 mins; April 27, 2024
Teri Ann Finneman et al., "Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; April 25, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19 mins; April 24, 2024
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
65 hours 5 mins; April 23, 2024
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
58 mins; April 19, 2024
Grazia Ting Deng, "Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 14, 2024
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
47 mins; April 11, 2024
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
79 hours 8 mins; April 08, 2024
Marc Edelman, "Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change" (Cornell UP, 2024)
56 mins; April 06, 2024
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
63 hours 28 mins; April 05, 2024
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
67 hours 45 mins; April 03, 2024
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
69 hours 21 mins; April 02, 2024
Robert Bruno, "What Work Is" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
65 hours 55 mins; April 01, 2024
Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; March 30, 2024
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
29 mins; March 30, 2024
Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
48 mins; March 26, 2024
Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
69 hours 17 mins; March 23, 2024
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
28 mins; March 22, 2024
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
59 mins; March 20, 2024
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
39 mins; March 19, 2024
Financial Access and Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
29 mins; March 19, 2024
Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
29 mins; March 18, 2024
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
88 hours 11 mins; March 13, 2024
Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: ï»żUnderstanding the Past to Forecast the Future" ï»ż(Greenleaf, 2024)
41 mins; March 13, 2024
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; March 06, 2024
Adam Dean, "Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
31 mins; March 04, 2024
Francesca Sobande, "Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
35 mins; March 03, 2024
Alissa Quart and David Wallis, "Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country" (Haymarket, 2023)
54 mins; February 28, 2024
Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)
61 hours 18 mins; February 28, 2024
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 27, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
52 mins; February 26, 2024
Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
53 mins; February 25, 2024
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
51 mins; February 23, 2024
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
52 mins; February 22, 2024
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
71 hours 49 mins; February 22, 2024
Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)
37 mins; February 21, 2024
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
61 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2024
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
63 hours 31 mins; February 17, 2024
Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, "Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region" (Pluto Press, 2023)
50 mins; February 16, 2024
Sarah El-Kazaz, "Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul" (Duke UP, 2023)
51 mins; February 15, 2024
Ryan Manucha, "Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada's Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
54 mins; February 14, 2024
"War is what you make of it" with Neta Crawford of Oxford University and the Costs of War Project
36 mins; February 13, 2024
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)
46 mins; February 12, 2024
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 43 mins; February 11, 2024
Steven High, "Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
67 hours 50 mins; February 07, 2024
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
32 mins; February 07, 2024
Hedwig Amelia Waters, "Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share" (UCL Press, 2023)
47 mins; February 06, 2024
Youjin B. Chung, "Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures" (Cornell UP, 2024)
52 mins; February 06, 2024
Vani Kant Borooah, "Economics, Religion and Happiness: God, Mammon and the Search for Spiritual and Financial Wealth" (Routledge, 2023)
43 mins; February 05, 2024
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
31 mins; February 03, 2024
Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America
35 mins; February 02, 2024
Lisa Herzog, "Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2024
Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 30, 2024
Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
42 mins; January 28, 2024
Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 49 mins; January 26, 2024
Loka Ashwood et al., "Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-By-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm" (UNC Press, 2023)
50 mins; January 24, 2024
Jared D. Margulies, "The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
38 mins; January 24, 2024
Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; January 23, 2024
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 23, 2024
Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
34 mins; January 22, 2024
Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra S. Penn, "Systems Mapping: How to Build and Use Causal Models of Systems" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
49 mins; January 20, 2024
Gustav Cederlof, "The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba" (U California Press, 2023)
48 mins; January 15, 2024
James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)
68 hours 36 mins; January 14, 2024
Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
71 hours 30 mins; January 14, 2024
John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
46 mins; January 10, 2024
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Jayaseelan Raj, "Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt" (UCL Press, 2022)
56 mins; January 06, 2024
Matthew O. Jackson, "The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors" (Vintage, 2019)
66 hours 57 mins; January 05, 2024
Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)
67 hours 12 mins; January 04, 2024
Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; January 02, 2024
Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
36 mins; January 02, 2024
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
54 mins; January 01, 2024
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
52 mins; January 01, 2024
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
59 mins; December 28, 2023
Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
59 mins; December 23, 2023