Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 1415
For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious cha…
1 year, 3 months ago
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
Episode 543
Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die.
They…
1 year, 3 months ago
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1412
Karl Marx in America (University of Chicago Press, 2025), by Andrew Hartman
To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People…
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1411
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle? Can the international economic and legal system survive …
1 year, 3 months ago
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Episode 1410
Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Toda…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
Episode 1409
Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world.…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
Episode 1408
What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany ha…
1 year, 4 months ago
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1407
A vital examination of how social and economic justice organizations overcome resource disadvantages and build political power. Why do some coalition…
1 year, 4 months ago
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
Episode 1406
In this episode, we sit down with Shaina Potts, author of Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Duke University Pre…
1 year, 4 months ago
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Episode 1405
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders (Indiana UP, 2023)explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of in…
1 year, 4 months ago