Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEdward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
Episode 1424
The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity.
Two material artifacts defined the middle-class America…
1 year, 2 months ago
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World
Episode 284
We all have the power to change the world through the products we buy. This simple premise has driven the growth of the conscious consumer movement f…
1 year, 2 months ago
Vijay 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
Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration
Episode 15
In this episode, we are joined by Dr Yasmin Ortiga, Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University, to speak to us about her lat…
1 year, 2 months ago
Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling
Episode 27
Better Innovations, to talk about Taiwan as a home for migrant workers, and decent work in supply chains. After a brief overview of key risks in this…
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
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 44
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Yale University Press, 2022) by Dr. Christopher Marquis & Dr. Kunyuan Qiao presents a tho…
1 year, 3 months ago
David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
Episode 1416
Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made (Oxford University Press and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025) by Dr. David Enger…
1 year, 3 months ago
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 1414
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