Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
Episode 195
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 395
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 164
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others…
10 months ago
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 164
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others…
10 months ago
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 433
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and p…
10 months, 1 week ago
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 432
In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (U California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, a former hedge fund worker takes an ethnograp…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)
Episode 260
In The Land Trap (Portfolio / Penguin), Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence o…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 430
In The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism (Stanford UP, 2023), the authors Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian c…
11 months ago
Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company" (HBR Press, 2017)
Episode 429
Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open…
11 months ago
Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)
Episode 428
“If I had been enslaved for a year or two, I might not be able to believe in humanity any more.” “I am a victim of modern slavery.”
These chilling wo…
11 months, 1 week ago