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Back to SearchChris 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
Algy Hall, "Four Ways to Beat the Market: A Practical Guide to Stock-Screening Strategies to Help You Pick Winning Shares" (Harriman House, 2023)
Episode 51
Investors in stocks are faced with two major problems: How to find and interpret the most useful data from company accounts. How to whittle down the …
3 years, 4 months ago
John M. Jennings, "The Uncertainty Solution: How to Invest with Confidence in the Face of the Unknown" (Greenleaf Book Group, 2023)
Episode 27
This is not a typical investment book. It is an experiential guide on cultivating the mindset and behavior necessary to weather inherently uncertain…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
Episode 66
By providing capital to back the ideas and efforts of others, venture capitalists can make absurd amounts of money. But there is another way of looki…
3 years, 4 months ago
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 121
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines (Duke UP, 2022) investigates the ways in which racial and cl…
3 years, 4 months ago
Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 76
The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam S…
3 years, 4 months ago
Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 239
Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution…
3 years, 5 months ago
William J. Bernstein, "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" (Grove Press, 2021)
Episode 291
What do financial bubbles and religious millenarianism have in common? They both involve collective delusion. When Charles Mackey wrote a book on the…
3 years, 5 months ago
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 74
The recent rise of dollar, pound, and euro inflation rates has rekindled the debate over potential alternative monies, particularly gold and Bitcoin.…
3 years, 5 months ago
Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel, "The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 136
Adrian Bazbauers and Susan Engel’s 2021 book The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development? (Routledge, …
3 years, 5 months ago