Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 99
In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues that…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 148
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr…
2 years, 6 months ago
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 120
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied import…
2 years, 6 months ago
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 97
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Tele…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Episode 29
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor mark…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
Episode 69
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian and standup comedian, Sean Vanatta, lecturer in economic and social history at the University…
2 years, 6 months ago
Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 180
The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address…
2 years, 7 months ago
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
Episode 9
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Larges…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)
Episode 55
Most people rely only on their life experience to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape eco…
2 years, 7 months ago
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Episode 28
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an e…
2 years, 7 months ago