Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
Episode 7
Hali Lee's The Big We (Zando, 2025) offers a compelling counterpoint to traditional billionaire-driven philanthropy (which she dubs "Big Phil"). Inst…
1 year, 5 months ago
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
Episode 396
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones are joined by crypto journalist Matt Binder and longtime observer of U.S. politics and policy Edward Luc…
1 year, 5 months ago
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 304
Today I interviewed Charles Hecker about Zero Sum. The Arc of International Business in Russia (Oxford UP, 2025).
Hecker, a journalist and business c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
Episode 178
The Chinese Communist Party’s complex and contradictory embrace of capitalism has played a pivotal role in shaping China’s economic reforms since the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
Episode 45
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.
None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the demo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
Episode 177
More than any one institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rates a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
Episode 173
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
Episode 172
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
Episode 174
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 129
One of the most distinctive aspects of global capitalism in the last half century or so has been the increased role of the financial sector in the gl…
1 year, 6 months ago