Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJ. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financial Regulation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 27
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with no …
6 years, 1 month ago
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 38
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and …
6 years, 2 months ago
Olli Rehn, "Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 43
Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspec…
6 years, 2 months ago
Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (Basic Books, 2020)
Episode 23
Should climate change policy be subject to a cost-benefit analysis leading to a variety of policy choices? Or is it so critical that the only "proper…
6 years, 2 months ago
Paul De Grauwe, "Economics of Monetary Union" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 42
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020) has become a st…
6 years, 2 months ago
Costas Lapavitsas, "The Left Case Against the EU" (Polity, 2018)
Episode 62
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it…
6 years, 2 months ago
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 6: Negative Interest
Episode 177
Warning: Economics. In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washi…
6 years, 3 months ago
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 41
Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure econ…
6 years, 3 months ago
Tim Koller, "Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies" (Wiley, 2020)
Episode 22
How do you value something? It seems simple enough. Since the beginning of commerce thousands of years ago, people have been asserting the value of e…
6 years, 3 months ago
Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes" (Random House, 2020)
Episode 39
Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art a…
6 years, 4 months ago