Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Episode 175
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.
Confr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 173
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that U…
2 years, 9 months ago
Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America
Episode 27
Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the h…
2 years, 9 months ago
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 209
In recent years, government agencies around the world have been forced to consider the role of competition law and policy in addressing various crise…
2 years, 9 months ago
Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 53
We are on the verge of a major paradigm shift for investors in the U.S. stock market. Dividend-focused stock investing has been receding in popularit…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 144
Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental d…
2 years, 9 months ago
John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 13
Trying to follow the key macroeconomic debates that are swirling around DC, CNBC, the WSJ and the NYT? If you are but don't want to go back to gradua…
2 years, 9 months ago
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 41
Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure econ…
2 years, 9 months ago
Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)
Episode 5
Before becoming a financial analyst and then a portfolio manager in New York, Daniel Peris worked as a tenure-track professor of Soviet history. I sa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Episode 10
Richard Vague really really cares about private-sector debt. And he thinks you should too. In A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial…
2 years, 10 months ago