Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLiran Einav et al., "Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 129
Why is dental insurance so crummy? Why is pet insurance so expensive? Why does your auto insurer ask for your credit score? The answer to these quest…
3 years, 9 months ago
Automating Finance
Episode 11
Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Eng…
3 years, 9 months ago
Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed
Episode 46
What's going on in private markets? As interest rates have gone up, public markets have been marked down much more severely than assets in the privat…
3 years, 10 months ago
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 55
A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to …
3 years, 10 months ago
Quentin Bruneau, "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 45
Today, states' ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long be…
3 years, 10 months ago
Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm" (Doubleday, 2022)
Episode 44
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting…
3 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
Episode 334
Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive fin…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Episode 42
What exactly can artificial intelligence do? It’s an issue some of the professions are grappling with – on the face of it, law is an area that rests …
3 years, 10 months ago
Robert L. Hetzel, "The Federal Reserve: A New History" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 125
In The Federal Reserve: A New History (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Robert Hetzel draws on a 43-year career as an economist in the central ban…
3 years, 10 months ago
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 184
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree.
In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generatio…
3 years, 11 months ago