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Back to SearchCarl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1474
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
11 months, 1 week ago
Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)
Episode 1473
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining o…
11 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 29
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one …
11 months, 1 week ago
Joe Allen, "The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
Episode 9
If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS (Haymarket Boo…
11 months, 1 week ago
Richard H. Thaler and Alex Imas, "The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1470
Alex Imas is the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Professor of Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI and a Vasilou Faculty Scholar at the Universi…
11 months, 1 week ago
Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, "Pierre-Yves Donzé & Maki Umemura, Japan and the Great Divergence in Business History" (JESB, 2025)
Episode 1469
For much of the late 20th century, Japanese business historians were core contributors to the global field. They published, collaborated, and shaped …
11 months, 1 week ago
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 1468
In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal i…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
Episode 108
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent boo…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 572
Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Pea…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Loic De Canniere, "The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare" (Anthem, 2025)
Episode 1465
The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labor Markets and Welfare explores the major trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan cont…
11 months, 3 weeks ago