New Books in Economics
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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
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
60 hours 54 mins; April 26, 2022
Barry Eichengreen et al., "In Defense of Public Debt" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; April 26, 2022
Megan Birk, "The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
38 mins; April 22, 2022
M. Bianet Castellanos, "Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtness in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2020)
60 hours 12 mins; April 22, 2022
Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman, "Building Behavioral Science in an Organization" (Action Design Press, 2021)
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
Gavin Mueller, "Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job" (Verso, 2021)
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
Mohammad F Anwar and Frank E Danna, "Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging & Success" (Lioncrest, 2021)
36 mins; April 14, 2022
Dashun Wang and Albert-LĂĄszlĂł BarabĂĄsi, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 5 mins; April 13, 2022
The Future of Life Expectancy: A Discussion with Angus Deaton
39 mins; April 12, 2022
R. Douglas Arnold, "Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; April 08, 2022
Roberta Moore, "Emotion at Work: Unleashing the Secret Power of Emotional Intelligence" (Conscious Choice, 2018)
36 mins; April 07, 2022
Nic Marsh et al., "Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade" (Zed Books, 2017)
40 mins; April 07, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
45 mins; April 06, 2022
Haakon GjerlĂžw and Carl Henrik Knutsen, "One Road to Riches?: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
41 mins; April 05, 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
61 hours 40 mins; April 05, 2022
The Business of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
67 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2022
Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U of California Press, 2022)
42 mins; April 04, 2022
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
57 mins; April 04, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
91 hours 25 mins; March 31, 2022
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond" (UChicago Press, 2022)
81 hours 7 mins; March 30, 2022
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
78 hours 5 mins; March 30, 2022
Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico, "The Handbook of Historical Economics" (Academic Press, 2021)
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
Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
55 mins; March 28, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
79 hours 6 mins; March 24, 2022
Oded Galor, "The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Dutton Books, 2022)
65 hours 28 mins; March 22, 2022
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
48 mins; March 22, 2022
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
48 mins; March 22, 2022
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
28 mins; March 21, 2022
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
53 mins; March 21, 2022
Molly M. Melin, "The Building and Breaking of Peace: Corporate Activities in Civil War Prevention and Resolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; March 21, 2022
Richard A. Detweiler, "The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry, and Accomplishment" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 43 mins; March 17, 2022
Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 15, 2022
Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
48 mins; March 15, 2022
The Future of Africa: A Discussion with James A. Robinson
52 mins; March 15, 2022
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
58 mins; March 11, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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
Bruce Wydick, "Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor" (Thomas Nelson, 2019)
61 hours 53 mins; March 08, 2022
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; March 08, 2022
Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
56 mins; March 07, 2022
Fabio Mattioli, "Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
74 hours 40 mins; March 07, 2022
Susan Oman, "Understanding Well-being Data: Improving Social and Cultural Policy, Practice and Research" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
40 mins; March 04, 2022
Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
56 mins; March 03, 2022
Carolyn Chen, "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2022)
37 mins; March 02, 2022
Jessie Singer, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
68 hours 5 mins; March 02, 2022
Julia Dehm, "Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
31 mins; February 28, 2022
Carl Rhodes, "Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy" (Policy Press, 2021)
32 mins; February 24, 2022
Rachel E Brulé, "Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
72 hours 34 mins; February 23, 2022
David Boarder Giles, "A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities" (Duke UP, 2021)
73 hours 29 mins; February 22, 2022
Mark Devenney, "Towards an Improper Politics" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
90 hours 14 mins; February 21, 2022
Shameen Prashantham, "Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups" (Wiley, 2021)
34 mins; February 17, 2022
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
54 mins; February 16, 2022
William D. Ferguson, "The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development" (Stanford UP, 2020)
46 mins; February 15, 2022
Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville, "Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters" (Polity Press, 2022)
53 mins; February 14, 2022
Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)
95 hours 33 mins; February 09, 2022
Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
34 mins; February 08, 2022
Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern, "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" (U California Press, 2022)
33 mins; February 07, 2022
Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; February 06, 2022
Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
66 hours 45 mins; February 03, 2022
Peter Cappelli, "The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face" (Wharton School Press, 2021)
44 mins; February 03, 2022
Mircea Raianu, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2021)
72 hours 9 mins; January 27, 2022
Ben M. Bensaou, "Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA" (McGraw Hill, 2021)
37 mins; January 26, 2022
Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)
61 hours 37 mins; January 26, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
63 hours 39 mins; January 25, 2022
Spencer Jakab, "The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors" (Penguin, 2022)
61 hours 36 mins; January 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
48 mins; January 20, 2022
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
64 hours 53 mins; January 18, 2022
A Conversation with Bijal Shah: Chief Experience Officer, Guild Education
56 mins; January 17, 2022
Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
65 hours 35 mins; January 14, 2022
Coleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg, "Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work" (HBR Press, 2021)
36 mins; January 13, 2022
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; January 11, 2022
Alexander Etkind, "Natureâ€Čs Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)
84 hours 36 mins; January 10, 2022
Nathalie Nahai, "Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience" (Kogan Page, 2022)
36 mins; December 30, 2021
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
99 hours 25 mins; December 29, 2021
Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
56 mins; December 28, 2021
Tobias F. Rötheli, "The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; December 28, 2021
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
56 mins; December 27, 2021
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
56 mins; December 27, 2021