Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 109
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consume…
2 years ago
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
Episode 70
This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battl…
2 years ago
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 59
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finan…
2 years ago
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 231
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps ma…
2 years ago
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 58
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that t…
2 years ago
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Episode 69
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usu…
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Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 139
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old…
2 years ago
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 390
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the co…
2 years ago
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
Episode 278
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?
In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in C…
2 years ago
Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 113
Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right …
2 years ago