Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchS. Carlsson and J. Leijonhufvud, "The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance" (Diversion Books, 2021)
Episode 59
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with p…
5 years, 8 months ago
M. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 65
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regu…
5 years, 8 months ago
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
Episode 41
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specifi…
5 years, 8 months ago
Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy, "Neoliberalism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Episode 57
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ‘neoliberal…
5 years, 8 months ago
Reducing Poverty through Digital Finance Schemes in Myanmar: A Discussion with Dr Russell Toth
Episode 13
Financial inclusion has been one of the most prominent issues on the international development agenda in recent years, as access to payments, remitta…
5 years, 8 months ago
Joshua Mendelsohn, "The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Episode 183
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team…
5 years, 9 months ago
Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 26
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narr…
5 years, 9 months ago
C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Development in Africa: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 90
The Idea of Development in Africa: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020) challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by …
5 years, 9 months ago
Virginia Torrie, "Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 119
Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (University of Toronto Press, 2020) explodes conventional wisdom ab…
5 years, 9 months ago
Weijian Shan, "Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank" (John Wiley, 2020)
Episode 57
Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank (Wiley, 2020) by Weijian Shan’s, is a riveting tale of one of…
5 years, 9 months ago