Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 467
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy.
In 1978 China …
3 months ago
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 466
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton Universit…
3 months ago
Brendan Greeley, "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money" (Crown, 2026)
Episode 465
America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the wor…
3 months, 1 week ago
J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, "Against Money" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 464
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card at the grocery store, in looming student-loan debts, in the prices of thing…
3 months, 1 week ago
Tyler Girard, "Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 463
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon refle…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Episode 462
Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets (Manchester UP, 2026) is the latest book from Dr Kate Bayliss, a Senio…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Episode 461
Indonesia is often framed as a key arena of China-Japan-US competition in the Second Cold War. In this episode, we talk with Trissia Wijaya about her…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Episode 460
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still underg…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 459
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Joshua Comaroff, "Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 458
In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic po…
4 months, 3 weeks ago