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David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, "Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad" (Fernwood, 2021)
97 hours 57 mins; September 28, 2022
Samo TomĆĄiÄ, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
76 hours 26 mins; September 27, 2022
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
43 mins; September 26, 2022
NBN Classic: John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know" (Routledge, 2019)
35 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism" (Routledge, 2017)
40 mins; September 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Peter J. Boettke, "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
49 mins; September 24, 2022
NBN Classic: Adem Yavuz Elveren, "The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective" (Routledge, 2019)
39 mins; September 24, 2022
Yuen Yuen Ang, "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
44 mins; September 23, 2022
Jamie Martin, "The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance" (Harvard UP, 2022)
72 hours 46 mins; September 21, 2022
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
38 mins; September 20, 2022
Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
38 mins; September 19, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; September 08, 2022
Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Studentsâand Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
49 mins; September 06, 2022
J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
59 mins; September 05, 2022
On John Maynard Keynesâ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"
26 mins; September 05, 2022
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
56 mins; September 05, 2022
Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
56 mins; August 31, 2022
Howard Yaruss, "Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
56 mins; August 31, 2022
Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
51 mins; August 31, 2022
Paul Oyer, "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports" (Yale UP, 2022)
Becky O'Connor, "The ESG Investing Handbook: Insights and Developments in Environmental, Social and Governance Investment" (Harriman House, 2022)
62 hours 13 mins; August 25, 2022
Alfie Bown, "Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships" (Pluto Press, 2022)
59 mins; August 24, 2022
Gamify Everything: Turning Work Into Play . . . for Better and for Worse
51 mins; August 24, 2022
Brett Scott, "Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets" (Harper Business, 2022)
65 hours 15 mins; August 24, 2022
Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
33 mins; August 24, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
37 mins; August 18, 2022
Fiona Moore, "Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
60 hours 16 mins; August 17, 2022
Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
65 hours 36 mins; August 17, 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
49 mins; August 16, 2022
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
40 mins; August 16, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 12, 2022
The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth
44 mins; August 09, 2022
Emma Ashford, "Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
39 mins; August 05, 2022
Paul A. Djupe et al. "The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 11 mins; August 04, 2022
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
52 mins; August 04, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
53 mins; August 03, 2022
Melina Palmer, "What Your Customer Wants and Canât Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics" (Mango, 2021)
31 mins; July 28, 2022
James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
62 hours 58 mins; July 27, 2022
Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)
40 mins; July 26, 2022
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
34 mins; July 25, 2022
John Joe Schlichtman, "Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
62 hours 44 mins; July 22, 2022
Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
60 hours 38 mins; July 21, 2022
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad SchoolâBut Didnât" (MIT Press, 2022)
46 mins; July 21, 2022
Rosetta S. Elkin, "Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; July 20, 2022
Johan Fourie, "Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 42 mins; July 19, 2022
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
32 mins; July 19, 2022
Alenka Triplat et al., "Profit from the Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core" (HBR Press, 2022)
24 mins; July 14, 2022
Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 14, 2022
Max Ajl, "A People's Green New Deal" (Pluto Press, 2021)
51 mins; July 05, 2022
Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
48 mins; July 05, 2022
Sushmita Pati, "Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 47 mins; July 04, 2022
Kuba Szreder, "The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World" (Manchester UP, 2021)
75 hours 4 mins; July 01, 2022
Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; June 30, 2022
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, "Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
68 hours 10 mins; June 30, 2022
Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power" (MIT Press, 2022)
50 mins; June 29, 2022
Deirdre N. McCloskey and Art Carden, "Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
27 mins; June 29, 2022
The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Does Financial Repression Work?
65 hours 31 mins; June 28, 2022
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe" (Dey Street Books, 2022)
60 hours 20 mins; June 22, 2022
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
57 mins; June 22, 2022
Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
36 mins; June 22, 2022
Eli Friedman, "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
66 hours 29 mins; June 20, 2022
Matthew T. Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet" (Verso, 2022)
45 mins; June 17, 2022
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
56 mins; June 17, 2022
Economics
16 mins; June 16, 2022
Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2021)
55 mins; June 15, 2022
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 44 mins; June 13, 2022
Deindustrialization
17 mins; June 13, 2022
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 16 mins; June 09, 2022
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
72 hours 19 mins; June 09, 2022
Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)
53 mins; June 08, 2022
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
56 mins; June 08, 2022
Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
80 hours 25 mins; June 07, 2022
Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)
63 hours 20 mins; June 07, 2022
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
75 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Erich Schwartzel, "Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy" (Penguin, 2022)
42 mins; June 06, 2022
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isnât Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
61 hours 36 mins; June 03, 2022
Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021)
61 hours 40 mins; June 02, 2022
Richard Chataway, "The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success" (Harriman House, 2020)
34 mins; June 02, 2022
Laura Clancy, "Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money" (Manchester UP, 2021)
41 mins; June 02, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; June 01, 2022
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas, "Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony" (Oxford UP. 2021)
59 mins; May 31, 2022
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
76 hours 0 mins; May 31, 2022
Paul Morland, "Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers" (Picador, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; May 25, 2022
The Future of Neoliberalism: A Conversation with Gary Gerstle
54 mins; May 24, 2022
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" (Public Affairs, 2022)
50 mins; May 18, 2022
The Future of Human Fertility: A Conversation with R. John Aitken
48 mins; May 17, 2022
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
28 mins; May 16, 2022
Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
69 hours 19 mins; May 15, 2022
Sam Tatam, "Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges" (Harriman House, 2022)
66 hours 19 mins; May 11, 2022
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
74 hours 23 mins; May 10, 2022
Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
47 mins; May 10, 2022
Jeff D. Colgan, "Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order" (Oxford UP, 2021)
46 mins; May 10, 2022
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)