Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe: Background, Impact, and Policy" (Palgrave, 2019)
Episode 56
In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyperinflation became an unlikely publishi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dirk Ehnts, "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (Routledge, 2016)
Episode 55
With the coronavirus pandemic, Modern Monetary Theory met its moment. A sudden and massive loss of output globally was met with an unprecedented resp…
5 years, 10 months ago
Bann Seng Tan, "International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 42
In International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins (Routledge, 2020), Political Scientist Bann Seng Tan investigates the lin…
5 years, 10 months ago
Hans-Werner Sinn, "The Economics of Target Balances" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 53
Every day, TARGET - Europe's cross-border payments system - processes transactions worth €2.5 trillion. Under its decentralised model, TARGET generat…
5 years, 10 months ago
Paul Donovan, "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 29
Paul Donovan's Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Routledge, 2020) is a great example of what Robert Shiller has…
5 years, 10 months ago
Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 52
Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as…
5 years, 10 months ago
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polity, 2020)
Episode 49
“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faster…
5 years, 11 months ago
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 92
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the histo…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ewald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020)
Episode 48
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest b…
5 years, 11 months ago
J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 478
Historians often portray the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) as a conservative force in debates over free enterprise, battles against uni…
6 years ago