New Books in Economics
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The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
37 mins; December 23, 2023
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
38 mins; December 21, 2023
Elise Hu, "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital" (Dutton, 2023)
35 mins; December 21, 2023
Chetan Choithani, "Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
40 mins; December 17, 2023
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
40 mins; December 16, 2023
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
56 mins; December 16, 2023
Niall G MacKenzie et al., "Varieties of Capitalism Over Time" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; December 13, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2023
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
32 mins; December 09, 2023
James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)
45 mins; December 06, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
38 mins; December 04, 2023
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, "Diversity Dividend" (MIT Press, 2023)
41 mins; December 01, 2023
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
34 mins; November 23, 2023
Economic Enchantments
21 mins; November 22, 2023
The Enlightened Donor: How to Give Charity Wisely
23 mins; November 22, 2023
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 2 mins; November 22, 2023
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
37 mins; November 19, 2023
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
64 hours 8 mins; November 17, 2023
Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 15, 2023
Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises
44 mins; November 15, 2023
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
43 mins; November 14, 2023
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
50 mins; November 13, 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; November 13, 2023
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
152 hours 38 mins; November 10, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
49 mins; November 09, 2023
Jieh-min Wu, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)
84 hours 21 mins; November 09, 2023
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2023
Rory Coulter, "Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities" (Policy Press, 2023)
50 mins; November 06, 2023
Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
52 mins; November 04, 2023
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
59 mins; November 04, 2023
Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
65 hours 29 mins; November 03, 2023
Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
49 mins; November 01, 2023
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 27, 2023
Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth
32 mins; October 21, 2023
Maitrayee Deka, "Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy" (Stanford UP, 2023)
51 mins; October 20, 2023
Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth
33 mins; October 19, 2023
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
47 mins; October 18, 2023
Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)
42 mins; October 17, 2023
Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
36 mins; October 16, 2023
AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation
41 mins; October 16, 2023
Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
63 hours 46 mins; October 15, 2023
Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
55 mins; October 14, 2023
On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth
50 mins; October 13, 2023
Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia
26 mins; October 13, 2023
On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.
32 mins; October 12, 2023
Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy
85 hours 47 mins; October 11, 2023
Applying Chicago Price Theory In Academia and Government
32 mins; October 09, 2023
Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)
48 mins; October 08, 2023
Long-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy
43 mins; October 07, 2023
Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)
59 mins; October 06, 2023
Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies
27 mins; October 05, 2023
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023
IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System
69 hours 18 mins; October 03, 2023
40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘
16 mins; October 02, 2023
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
68 hours 31 mins; October 02, 2023
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
32 mins; October 01, 2023
Daniel R. Reichman, "Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil" (Cornell UP, 2023)
45 mins; September 30, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
22 mins; September 29, 2023
Christian Krohn-Hansen, "Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods" (Stanford UP, 2022)
62 hours 11 mins; September 29, 2023
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
37 mins; September 28, 2023
Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
66 hours 29 mins; September 27, 2023
Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 26, 2023
Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)
65 hours 44 mins; September 24, 2023
Todd E. Vachon, "Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice" (Temple UP, 2023)
36 mins; September 22, 2023
Global Inequality: Are We Really Measuring What We Should Be Measuring?
43 mins; September 18, 2023
Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; September 17, 2023
Katie J. Wells et al., "Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; September 16, 2023
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
31 mins; September 15, 2023
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
27 mins; September 15, 2023
William Darity et al., "The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
37 mins; September 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue: Indonesia and Beyond
28 mins; September 11, 2023
Peter Foster, "What Went Wrong with Brexit? And What We Can Do about It" (Canongate, 2023)
47 mins; September 07, 2023
Al Davidoff, "Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell Workers' Fifteen-Year Fight for Justice and a Living Wage" (ILR Press, 2023)
60 hours 46 mins; September 04, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 02, 2023
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
33 mins; September 01, 2023
The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
76 hours 24 mins; August 28, 2023
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, "Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
35 mins; August 23, 2023
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
54 mins; August 22, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
56 mins; August 21, 2023
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
62 hours 55 mins; August 21, 2023
Renyi Hong, "Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 18, 2023
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
14 mins; August 16, 2023
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
12 mins; August 15, 2023
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
80 hours 4 mins; August 14, 2023
Vinod Thomas, "Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
67 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
52 mins; August 12, 2023
Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
77 hours 30 mins; August 10, 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
43 mins; August 09, 2023
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023
Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
44 mins; August 09, 2023
Simone M. MĂźller, "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (U Washington Press, 2023)
63 hours 2 mins; August 08, 2023
Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
40 mins; August 08, 2023
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 07, 2023
Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
61 hours 57 mins; August 06, 2023
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)
59 mins; August 05, 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
42 mins; August 05, 2023
Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
15 mins; August 03, 2023
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 02, 2023
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 02, 2023