Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchExtraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos
Episode 1484
Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutio…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
David 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
Judd B. Kessler, "Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics of Getting More of What You Want" (Little, Brown Spark, 2025)
Episode 1482
What's the secret to scoring a reservation at a hot new restaurant? When should you enter a lottery to increase your odds of winning? Why did your ne…
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
Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)
Episode 1480
What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Dr. Matthew Scobie and Dr. Anna Sturman as …
10 months ago
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 1479
In The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism (Stanford UP, 2023), the authors Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian c…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
Episode 109
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, chats with Verena Halsmeyer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, about her recent, award-winning bo…
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 1477
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 1476
“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 ago
Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 1475
For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal o…
11 months, 1 week ago