Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKeren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)
Episode 139
The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a deficit or problem-solving appro…
3 years, 2 months ago
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 404
Why does the financial sector matter? In How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (Bristol UP, 2023), Philip Roscoe, a …
3 years, 2 months ago
Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 81
The rise of the global financial industry is treated by many economists as a critical component of the rise of neoliberalism. What few address is the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 423
In Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories (Melville House, 2023), Mike Rothschild delves into the history of the c…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
Episode 62
Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia. He is the author of four books, the most recent of whi…
3 years, 3 months ago
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
Episode 59
The World Economic Forum has become the bugbear of the right-wing in Canada, and beyond. Conspiracies swirl about how this shadowy, globalist cabal w…
3 years, 3 months ago
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 80
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalis…
3 years, 3 months ago
Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
Episode 109
Is Thomas Piketty the world’s most famous economic historian ? A superstar enemy of plutocratic capitalism who wrote a pathbreaking bestseller, Capit…
3 years, 3 months ago
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
Episode 299
In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black employee without cause. Flitter had been searching for a way to investiga…
3 years, 3 months ago
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
Episode 108
Our Recall this Buck series, back in 2020 and 2021, explored the history of money, ranging from the earliest forms of labor IOUs to the modern world …
3 years, 4 months ago