Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard 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
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
Episode 7
Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome?
James O'Toole's The Enlightened …
2 years, 10 months ago
Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Episode 125
When teaching a public course called “The Age of Debt” this winter break, I had the strange realization that one of the the most successful readings …
2 years, 10 months ago
Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 25
February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
Episode 91
With increasing talk of de-dollarization and the Gulf attempts to get more influence in the IMF it’s a good time to talk about the world’s internatio…
2 years, 10 months ago
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 143
Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and o…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Enlightened Donor: How to Give Charity Wisely
Episode 106
Motivated by compassion and hope, and the shared desire to make the world a better place, the immense amount of charitable giving stands as a testame…
2 years, 11 months ago
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 267
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantino…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Episode 685
Political Scientist Brendan Doherty has a new book that dives into the ways that presidents have raised money for themselves, their parties, and othe…
2 years, 11 months ago
Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
Episode 85
Firms and entrepreneurs were key drivers of the globalisation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thesis investigates commodit…
3 years ago