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Back to SearchJC de Swaan, "Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 28
JC de Swaan does not shy from a challenge. In his new book, Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge Un…
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Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Episode 47
Today I spoke with Dr Margaret Heffernan about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together (Simon and Schuster, 2020). Ma…
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Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 46
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mism…
6 years ago
Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random House, 2020)
Episode 27
Modern finance isn't really all that modern. Three centuries ago, Great Britain's need for money to fight its wars, the appearance of joint stock com…
6 years ago
Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics" (Princeton UP, 2017)
Episode 188
The work of Alfred Charles Pigou may not be as well known to people today as that of his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, but as Ian Kumekawa detail…
6 years ago
Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Disruption Books, 2020)
Episode 26
Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class…
6 years, 1 month ago
Christopher Marquis, "Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Episode 44
I spoke with Prof. Christopher Marquis, Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell Universit…
6 years, 1 month ago
R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)
Episode 25
Is there a consensus on the best response to global warming? Not even close. Left and right both bring their own tools, math, and, most notably, agen…
6 years, 1 month ago
Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Episode 24
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple.
During the course of the 20th century, most of us have gotten used…
6 years, 1 month ago
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 52
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Han…
6 years, 1 month ago