Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaxim Sytch, "The Influence Economy: Decoding Supplier-Induced Demand" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1464
In The Influence Economy: Decoding Supplier-Induced Demand (Oxford UP, 2025), Maxim Sytch reveals how professional services--consulting, marketing, …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Nancy Neiman, "Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 190
A series of market-related crises over the past two decades – financial, environmental, health, education, poverty – reinvigorated the debate about m…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
Episode 1462
An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 1461
Over the last several decades, sources of income derived away from farms have come to play a much bigger role in rural Indonesian households. How do …
1 year ago
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1460
R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and …
1 year ago
Teresa M. Mares and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, "Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1459
Food consumers are demanding a healthier and more sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion. In Will Work for Food: Labor A…
1 year ago
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 102
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases ar…
1 year ago
Lily Hsueh, "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1456
Dr. Lily Hseuh is trained as an economist and public policy scholar, and is an associate professor in Economics and Public Policy in the School of Pu…
1 year ago
Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1457
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dangerous ideas. It…
1 year ago
Joe Wiggins, "The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds" (Harriman House, 2022)
Episode 47
Investing in funds is not straightforward. We are faced with a countless range of options and constantly distracted by meaningless noise and turbulen…
1 year ago