Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSamuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political econ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Eswar S. Prasad, "The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 114
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021) provides…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ann Garcia, "How to Pay for College: A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education" (Harriman House, 2022)
Episode 40
Providing your children with a good education is one of the best gifts you can give. But it’s not straightforward.
Education costs and student loan de…
4 years, 2 months ago
Didac Queralt, "Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 37
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign…
4 years, 3 months ago
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 111
Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past …
4 years, 3 months ago
Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 70
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to cli…
4 years, 4 months ago
Does Financial Repression Work?
Episode 39
Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He started his career in banking in 1987 just in time fo…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, "How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth" (Polity, 2022)
Episode 33
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to p…
4 years, 4 months ago
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 104
Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people a…
4 years, 4 months ago
Charlie Eaton, "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 167
Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepp…
4 years, 5 months ago