Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business" (MIT Press, 2018)
Episode 12
Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught? From Jeffersonian politics to the hallowed family farm, from craft breweries to tec…
7 years, 3 months ago
Ekaterina Svetlova, "Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats" (Elgar, 2018)
Episode 11
The machines have taken over.... For many operating in investment management, it can certainly seem that way: factor investing, algorithmic investing…
7 years, 3 months ago
Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 69
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of authoritarianism? Tobias Strau…
7 years, 4 months ago
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 513
In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange…
7 years, 4 months ago
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
Episode 7
Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome?
James O'Toole's The Enlightened …
7 years, 6 months ago
David Colander and Craig Freedman, "Where Economics Went Wrong: Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 6
If you are reading this, you have probably run into the "Chicago" model at some point or another, in terms of public policy, orthodox modern finance,…
7 years, 7 months ago
Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Episode 103
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments i…
7 years, 9 months ago
Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 5
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again. Who shoul…
7 years, 9 months ago
Hassan Malik, "Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Episode 4
Lumbering late Tsarist Russia and international finance? Is there anything there? The Bolsheviks and finance? How can there be anything there? It …
7 years, 9 months ago
Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells, "The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly" (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018)
Episode 3
You mean accounting has a history? Yes, it does, and it should matter to you, because the accounting profession, and the audit function that it serv…
7 years, 10 months ago