Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 5
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again. Who should…
2 years, 4 months ago
Financial Institutions and Enslavement
Episode 462
In this special episode, we talk to two authors about the role of financial institutions in enslavement. Sharon Ann Murphy, associate professor of hi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth
Episode 10
Esoteric and frequently disinterested in the public good, financial institutions can be hard to navigate for those seeking to advance social welfare.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 102
A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024), C…
2 years, 5 months ago
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
Episode 30
Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monet…
2 years, 5 months ago
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 150
In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
Episode 187
India’s stock markets are booming. One calculation from Bloomberg puts India as the world’s fourth-largest equity market, overtaking Hong Kong, as do…
2 years, 5 months ago
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 149
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s book Dis…
2 years, 5 months ago
Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 187
Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy fr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 513
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange…
2 years, 5 months ago