Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We Do" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 18
Tired of the mechanical, narrowly rational human behavior of the Chicago school, but not exactly comforted by the emphasis on irrational activity in …
6 years, 11 months ago
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most tra…
7 years ago
Howard Kunreuther, "The Future of Risk Management" (U Penn Press, 2019)
Episode 42
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the envi…
7 years ago
Daniel Peris on Robert Shiller's "Narrative Economics" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 16
Culture matters. And a key element of culture is storytelling. These maxims can be accepted as given, except in modern economics, where the mechanist…
7 years ago
James C. W. Ahiakpor, "Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 30
I spoke with James C. W. Ahiakpor, he is Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, at California State University, East Bay, USA. We discussed his…
7 years, 1 month ago
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 52
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it …
7 years, 1 month ago
David Bahnsen, "The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World" (Post Hill Press, 2019)
Episode 15
Dividend investors are a small but dedicated band. Ten years into a stock market rally led by no or low-dividend paying companies, they still argue i…
7 years, 2 months ago
Philip Grant, "Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 14
The authors of Chains of Finance: How Investment Management is Shaped (Oxford University Press, 2017) make points that professionals already know and…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sarah L. Quinn, "American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 365
Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, …
7 years, 2 months ago
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, “Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 130
How are markets made? In Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Jua…
7 years, 3 months ago