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Back to SearchJeffrey C. Hooke, "The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments" (Columbia Business School, 2021)
Episode 34
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing…
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Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
Episode 80
Neoclassical economic theory shows that under the right conditions, prices alone can guide markets to efficient outcomes. But what if it it’s hard to…
5 years ago
Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
Episode 79
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth explains…
5 years ago
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 242
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Col…
5 years, 1 month ago
Gregory Werden, "The Foundations of Antitrust: Events, Ideas, and Doctrines" (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
Episode 78
Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking…
5 years, 1 month ago
Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley, "Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 33
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Episode 12
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using …
5 years, 2 months ago
Benjamin Ho, "Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 76
Do you trust corporations? Do you trust politicians? Do you trust the science? Does anyone trust anyone anymore?
In Why Trust Matters: An Economist's …
5 years, 2 months ago
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 117
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubi…
5 years, 2 months ago
Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster, "In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 21
Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (Princeton UP, 202…
5 years, 3 months ago