Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 387
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 170
The secret insights of economics, translated for the rest of us. Should I buy or rent? Do I ask for a promotion? Should I tell people I’m pregnant? W…
1 year, 6 months ago
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 172
John Kay's The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong (Yale UP, 2025) is an accessible and ente…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Episode 384
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1 year, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Episode 383
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with retired professor, consultant, Discovery Institute fellow, and a winner of the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Scienc…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
Episode 60
The Library of Mistakes is a library located in Edinburgh, Scotland dedicated to financial and economic history. Russell Napier, the founder and keep…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 170
Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right…
1 year, 7 months ago
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Episode 239
China's household debt has exploded from 11% of GDP in 2006 to over 62% today—a profound transformation in a traditionally savings-focused society. H…
1 year, 7 months ago
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 123
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero reveals…
1 year, 7 months ago
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Episode 60
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over …
1 year, 8 months ago