Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMassimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 51
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published…
5 years, 3 months ago
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 113
In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopia…
5 years, 3 months ago
Mallory E. SoRelle, "Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 537
Americans rely on credit to provide for their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and other daily necessities and the 2008 financial crisis demo…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 255
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambran…
5 years, 4 months ago
Zachary Karabell, "Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power" (Penguin, 2021)
Episode 1013
In 1800 a Belfast linen merchant named Alexander Brown emigrated with his wife and eldest son to Baltimore. Today his family’s name lives on in the i…
5 years, 4 months ago
Tom Eisenmann, "Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success" (Currency, 2021)
Episode 122
Why do many startups fail? Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School realised that even he didn’t really know the answe…
5 years, 4 months ago
Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 156
In spite of Karl Marx's proclamation that money would become obsolete under Communism, the ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. In fact, alth…
5 years, 5 months ago
Joanne Meyerowitz, "A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 108
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton UP, 2021) provides a fresh account of US involveme…
5 years, 5 months ago
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 32
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming? Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William No…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bobby C. Lee, "The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You" (McGraw-Hill Education, 2021)
Episode 67
I spoke with Bobby Lee about his book 'The promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You' (McGraw-Hill, 2021).
Bobby Lee is a ve…
5 years, 5 months ago