Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmy Offner, “Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas” (Princeton UP, 2019)
The neoliberal 1980s of austerity and privatization may appear as a break with the past—perhaps a model of government drawn up by libertarian economi…
6 years, 5 months ago
Jonathan Rothwell, “A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Inequality in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past decades — on that there is agreement. There is less agreement on the causes of that i…
6 years, 5 months ago
Julian Havil, “Curves for the Mathematically Curious” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Today I talked to Julian Havil about his latest book Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful,…
6 years, 5 months ago
Sara Lorenzini, “Global Development: A Cold War History” (Princeton UP, 2019)
As Dr. Sara Lorenzini points out in her new book Global Development: A Cold War History (Princeton University Press, 2019), the idea of economic deve…
6 years, 6 months ago
David S. Richeson, “Tales of Impossibility” (Princeton UP, 2019)
David S. Richeson‘s book Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 201…
6 years, 6 months ago
Nicholas Buccola, “The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Nicholas Buccola’s new book, The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University Pr…
6 years, 6 months ago
Eric D. Weitz, “A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Who has the right to have rights? Motivated by Hannah Arendt’s famous reflections on the question of statelessness the book tells a non-linear global…
6 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Peris on Robert Shiller’s “Narrative Economics” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Culture matters. And a key element of culture is storytelling. These maxims can be accepted as given, except in modern economics, where the mechanist…
6 years, 6 months ago
Erika Milam, “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primat…
6 years, 7 months ago
Kyle A. Jaros, “China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Discussions of China’s 21st-century ‘rise’ often focus on the country’s dazzling megacities and the dizzying pace of urbanization which has propelled…
6 years, 7 months ago