Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTim 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
E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda/Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 6
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?
Today I talked to Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth about their new book A…
6 years, 4 months ago
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
Episode 173
In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Bell…
6 years, 4 months ago
Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Episode 81
In today’s ultra-polarized and highly partisan political environment, Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets―And …
6 years, 4 months ago
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Episode 20
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for …
6 years, 5 months ago
Tyler Cowen, "Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero" (St. Martins, 2019)
Episode 21
You mean big business is good, contributes to our general welfare, and is not generally guilty--with notable exceptions--of all of the charges made a…
6 years, 5 months ago
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
Episode 195
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity…
6 years, 5 months ago
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 20
Howard Friedman's new book Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life (University of California Press, 2020) should be required reading for anyone si…
6 years, 6 months ago
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Episode 193
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. …
6 years, 6 months ago