New Books in Economics
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Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
75 hours 27 mins; February 15, 2023
The History of Student Loans in the United States
66 hours 53 mins; February 14, 2023
Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
58 mins; February 11, 2023
ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
61 hours 27 mins; February 11, 2023
The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
33 mins; February 11, 2023
Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
25 mins; February 10, 2023
The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
23 mins; February 10, 2023
Max Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
26 mins; February 09, 2023
Venkatesh Rao, "The Art of Gig" (Ribbonfarm, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; February 05, 2023
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
48 mins; February 05, 2023
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
38 mins; February 04, 2023
Thomas Poell et al., "Platforms and Cultural Production" (Polity, 2022)
90 hours 14 mins; February 04, 2023
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 03, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
41 mins; February 02, 2023
Missing: Men at Work
51 mins; January 31, 2023
M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)
45 mins; January 30, 2023
The Future of Computer Chips: A Discussion with Julian Kamasa
50 mins; January 28, 2023
Robert Holzmann and Fernando Restoy, "Central Banks and Supervisory Architecture in Europe: Lessons from Crises in the 21st Century" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
53 mins; January 27, 2023
The History of Temp Work
71 hours 52 mins; January 24, 2023
Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
52 mins; January 24, 2023
Joe Wiggins, "The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds" (Harriman House, 2022)
67 hours 18 mins; January 23, 2023
David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, "Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
70 hours 3 mins; January 21, 2023
Trend Forecasting and the Business of the Future
59 mins; January 21, 2023
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 21, 2023
Liran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
69 hours 57 mins; January 21, 2023
Automating Finance
57 mins; January 19, 2023
The Ideology of Innovation in India
68 hours 22 mins; January 17, 2023
How Did the Pandemic Transform Workers and Work?
37 mins; January 16, 2023
South Korea, Technology, and Globalization
62 hours 26 mins; January 16, 2023
Infrastructure and Inequality
63 hours 45 mins; January 15, 2023
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
100 hours 40 mins; January 15, 2023
Jeffrey Carpenter and Andrea Robbett, "Game Theory and Behavior" (MIT Press, 2022)
23 mins; January 14, 2023
The Future of Inequality: A Discussion with Mike Savage
42 mins; January 13, 2023
Heidi K. Gardner and Ivan A. Matviak, "Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work" (HBR Press, 2022)
29 mins; January 12, 2023
Understanding Technology Bubbles
77 hours 46 mins; January 11, 2023
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
66 hours 33 mins; January 08, 2023
(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
16 mins; January 05, 2023
Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
39 mins; January 04, 2023
Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022)
35 mins; December 29, 2022
Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
66 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
45 mins; December 22, 2022
The ‘Domino Effect’: Global and Regional Climate Change Impacts on Food Supply Chains
22 mins; December 22, 2022
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
48 mins; December 21, 2022
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
45 mins; December 20, 2022
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
50 mins; December 19, 2022
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
62 hours 31 mins; December 19, 2022
Renee M. P. Teate, "SQL for Data Scientists: A Beginner's Guide for Building Datasets for Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
42 mins; December 19, 2022
Quentin Bruneau, "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New" (Columbia UP, 2022)
51 mins; December 18, 2022
Jeremy L. Wallace, "Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 18, 2022
The Future of the Arms Industry: A Discussion with Pieter D. Wezeman
45 mins; December 17, 2022
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; December 17, 2022
Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm" (Doubleday, 2022)
35 mins; December 16, 2022
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
34 mins; December 15, 2022
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
52 mins; December 11, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
51 mins; December 09, 2022
Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; December 09, 2022
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
102 hours 8 mins; December 08, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 49 mins; December 04, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; November 30, 2022
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2022
The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; November 29, 2022
Tim Walker and Lucian Morris, "The Handbook of Banking Technology" (John Wiley & Sons, 2021)
82 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson, "The Military and the Market" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
53 mins; November 25, 2022
Public Participation and Contested Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin
23 mins; November 24, 2022
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 15 mins; November 24, 2022
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 23, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 22, 2022
Lynette H. Ong, "Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China" (Oxford UP, 2022)
46 mins; November 18, 2022
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
25 mins; November 16, 2022
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, "Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
84 hours 58 mins; November 16, 2022
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
55 mins; November 16, 2022
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
49 mins; November 15, 2022
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
42 mins; November 15, 2022
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
49 mins; November 15, 2022
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 10 mins; November 11, 2022
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; November 08, 2022
Vivek Chibber, "Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It" (Verso, 2022)
70 hours 42 mins; November 03, 2022
Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; November 02, 2022
Brian A. Wong, "The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
64 hours 18 mins; November 01, 2022
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
50 mins; November 01, 2022
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
27 mins; November 01, 2022
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
62 hours 47 mins; November 01, 2022
Tom Haines-Doran, "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" (Manchester UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 31, 2022
Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; October 28, 2022
Matthias Bernt, "The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg" (Wiley, 2022)
57 mins; October 28, 2022
Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
36 mins; October 25, 2022
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
39 mins; October 20, 2022
Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson, "Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future" (HBR Press, 2022)
37 mins; October 20, 2022
On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
38 mins; October 19, 2022
Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
Jakob Feinig, "Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society" (Stanford UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; October 13, 2022
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 20 mins; October 07, 2022
Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022)
46 mins; October 06, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
62 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
45 mins; September 29, 2022
Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert, "Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)" (Verso, 2022)
62 hours 58 mins; September 29, 2022
Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
40 mins; September 28, 2022