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Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
50 mins; August 02, 2023
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 31, 2023
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
66 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2023
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
80 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2023
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
45 mins; July 27, 2023
The Future of Supply Chains: A Discussion with Rob Handfield
36 mins; July 25, 2023
Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
57 mins; July 24, 2023
Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
50 mins; July 20, 2023
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37 mins; July 18, 2023
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57 mins; July 17, 2023
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60 hours 32 mins; July 17, 2023
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35 mins; July 13, 2023
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57 mins; July 11, 2023
Marcos GonzĂĄlez Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
43 mins; July 08, 2023
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
47 mins; July 05, 2023
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
36 mins; July 03, 2023
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
16 mins; July 02, 2023
The Innovators Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas
15 mins; July 01, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
19 mins; June 30, 2023
Rose Hackman, "Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
23 mins; June 29, 2023
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36 mins; June 27, 2023
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34 mins; June 26, 2023
The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
17 mins; June 23, 2023
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
55 mins; June 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
38 mins; June 20, 2023
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51 mins; June 19, 2023
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2023
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76 hours 0 mins; June 15, 2023
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34 mins; June 14, 2023
Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 mins; June 14, 2023
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40 mins; June 12, 2023
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61 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2023
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59 mins; June 11, 2023
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48 mins; June 09, 2023
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51 mins; June 08, 2023
Art Auctions and Data Science
38 mins; June 04, 2023
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46 mins; June 03, 2023
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58 mins; June 02, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin, 2020)
51 mins; June 02, 2023
William J. Bernstein, "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" (Grove Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 28, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 28, 2023
Missing: Men at Work â A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt
50 mins; May 26, 2023
Scott Timcke, "The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune: Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times" (Bristol UP, 2023)
36 mins; May 25, 2023
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76 hours 6 mins; May 24, 2023
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40 mins; May 22, 2023
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35 mins; May 21, 2023
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43 mins; May 19, 2023
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 18, 2023
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44 mins; May 17, 2023
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66 hours 37 mins; May 15, 2023
Colin Hoag, "The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesothoâs Water-Export Economy" (U California Press, 2022)
59 mins; May 10, 2023
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44 mins; May 10, 2023
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46 mins; May 06, 2023
Stephen Roach, "Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives" (Yale UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 06, 2023
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
37 mins; May 05, 2023
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46 mins; May 05, 2023
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43 mins; May 02, 2023
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43 mins; May 01, 2023
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63 hours 42 mins; May 01, 2023
Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
74 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2023
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47 mins; April 21, 2023
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50 mins; April 17, 2023
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39 mins; April 17, 2023
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61 hours 46 mins; April 16, 2023
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51 mins; April 15, 2023
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22 mins; April 13, 2023
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48 mins; April 12, 2023
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68 hours 9 mins; April 11, 2023
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53 mins; April 07, 2023
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59 mins; April 06, 2023
Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
33 mins; March 29, 2023
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
96 hours 39 mins; March 27, 2023
Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S Jacobs, "Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
64 hours 37 mins; March 25, 2023
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55 mins; March 25, 2023
Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)
43 mins; March 23, 2023
Leon Wansleben, "The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; March 23, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
44 mins; March 23, 2023
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40 mins; March 22, 2023
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
80 hours 2 mins; March 20, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
79 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2023
HernĂĄn Flom, "The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; March 16, 2023
Sango Mahanty, "Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands" (Cornell UP, 2022)
44 mins; March 15, 2023
Mareike Schomerus, "Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
71 hours 44 mins; March 15, 2023
Russ Roberts, "Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us" (Portfolio, 2022)
42 mins; March 15, 2023
Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the PoorâA Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)
76 hours 23 mins; March 12, 2023
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnamâs New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
28 mins; March 10, 2023
The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
38 mins; March 07, 2023
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 07, 2023
Choice Architecture
20 mins; March 07, 2023
Claudio E. Benzecry, "The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
76 hours 13 mins; March 06, 2023
Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India's Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
35 mins; March 05, 2023
Richard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
33 mins; March 01, 2023
Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
49 mins; March 01, 2023
The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf
47 mins; February 24, 2023
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
68 hours 0 mins; February 21, 2023
Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
35 mins; February 20, 2023
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
88 hours 29 mins; February 19, 2023
Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)
61 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2023
John Peters and Don Wells, "Canadian Labour Policy and Politics" (UBC Press, 2022)
57 mins; February 17, 2023
Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)