Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 184
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. B…
1 year, 2 months ago
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Episode 184
The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and …
1 year, 2 months ago
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 99
Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood…
1 year, 3 months ago
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 404
Central bank cooperation during global financial crises has been anything but consistent. While some crises are arrested with extensive cooperation, …
1 year, 3 months ago
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 543
Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.
They…
1 year, 3 months ago
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
Episode 402
The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press, 2025) by Dr. Brent Z. Kaup & Dr. Kelly F. Austi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 401
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle? Can the international economic and legal system survive …
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 400
Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Toda…
1 year, 4 months ago
Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
Episode 399
Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world.…
1 year, 4 months ago
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 398
Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro (Princeton UP, 2025)
John Cochrane
Luis Garicano
Klaus Masuch
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRES…
1 year, 4 months ago