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Back to SearchPasquale Tridico, “Inequality in Financial Capitalism” (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 8
I was joined by Pasquale Tridico, Professor of Political Economy at Roma Tre University in Italy. His latest book, Inequality in Financial Capitalism…
8 years, 11 months ago
Aled Davies, “The City of London and Social Democracy: The Political Economy of Finance in Post-war Britain” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 7
In the decades following the end of the Second World War, the British economy evolved from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by service ind…
9 years, 1 month ago
Clea Bourne, “Trust, Power and Public Relations in Financial Markets” (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 6
Almost 10 years after the great financial crisis, how has the finance industry regained its preeminent social position? In Trust, Power and Public Re…
9 years, 5 months ago
Marc-William Palen, “The ‘Conspiracy’ of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846-1896” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 5
Accounts of late-nineteenth-century US expansionism commonly refer to an open-door empire and an imperialism spurred by belief in free trade. In his …
10 years, 2 months ago
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, “Fed Power: How Finance Wins” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Episode 4
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King are the authors of Fed Power: How Finance Wins (Oxford UP, 2016). Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for…
10 years, 6 months ago
Leigh Claire La Berge, “Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Episode 3
What stories do we tell about finance? How does financial print culture shape our lives? Our guest today explores the narratives we have been told, a…
10 years, 9 months ago
Brett Scott, “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money” (Pluto Press, 2013)
Episode 2
Brett Scott is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (Pluto Press, 2013). Scott is a journalist, urban dee…
12 years, 5 months ago
Daniel Peris, “The Dividend Imperative” (McGrawHill, 2013)
Episode 1
When you buy a stock, you’re buying a piece of a company. The funny thing is that most people who own stocks either don’t know that or, if they do, d…
13 years, 3 months ago
Simon Johnson, “13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown” (Pantheon, 2010)
[Re-posted with permission from Jenny Attiyeh’s ThoughtCast] Simon Johnson, the Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, an…
15 years, 1 month ago