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Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens, "The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game" (HBRP, 2022)
34 mins; April 28, 2022
Larry E. Swedroe and Samuel C. Adams, "Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing" (Harriman House, 2022)
62 hours 24 mins; April 28, 2022
Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; April 28, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
77 hours 32 mins; April 27, 2022
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60 hours 54 mins; April 26, 2022
Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; April 26, 2022
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38 mins; April 22, 2022
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60 hours 12 mins; April 22, 2022
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33 mins; April 21, 2022
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
42 mins; April 21, 2022
Mary Childs, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
42 mins; April 20, 2022
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75 hours 30 mins; April 20, 2022
Commodity Fetishism B-Side
5 mins; April 20, 2022
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
48 mins; April 19, 2022
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 19, 2022
Morris Altman, "Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance" (Routledge, 2021)
36 mins; April 19, 2022
Commodity Fetishism
13 mins; April 19, 2022
Ruchika Tulshyan, "Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work" (MIT Press, 2022)
53 mins; April 18, 2022
Debt
18 mins; April 18, 2022
Isabella M. Weber, "How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; April 15, 2022
Jonathan Beller, "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2021)
59 mins; April 15, 2022
Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)
49 mins; April 14, 2022
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
61 hours 12 mins; April 14, 2022
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36 mins; April 14, 2022
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61 hours 5 mins; April 13, 2022
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39 mins; April 12, 2022
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45 mins; April 08, 2022
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36 mins; April 07, 2022
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40 mins; April 07, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
45 mins; April 06, 2022
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41 mins; April 05, 2022
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61 hours 40 mins; April 05, 2022
The Business of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
67 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2022
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138 hours 48 mins; April 05, 2022
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
57 mins; April 05, 2022
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42 mins; April 04, 2022
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57 mins; April 04, 2022
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91 hours 25 mins; March 31, 2022
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81 hours 7 mins; March 30, 2022
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78 hours 5 mins; March 30, 2022
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68 hours 13 mins; March 29, 2022
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
44 mins; March 29, 2022
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
55 mins; March 28, 2022
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55 mins; March 28, 2022
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79 hours 6 mins; March 24, 2022
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48 mins; March 22, 2022
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28 mins; March 21, 2022
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53 mins; March 21, 2022
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67 hours 43 mins; March 17, 2022
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59 mins; March 15, 2022
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52 mins; March 15, 2022
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58 mins; March 11, 2022
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61 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2022
Maryam Ziaee, "Big Data Analytics Adoption in Pharmaceutical Advanced Manufacturing"
33 mins; March 10, 2022
Julie Froud and Karel Williams, "Foundational Economy: The Infrastructure of Everyday Life" (Manchester UP, 2022)
43 mins; March 09, 2022
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61 hours 53 mins; March 08, 2022
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52 mins; March 08, 2022
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56 mins; March 07, 2022
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74 hours 40 mins; March 07, 2022
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56 mins; March 03, 2022
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68 hours 5 mins; March 02, 2022
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