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Back to SearchJessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
Episode 1384
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Jessica Smith, Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department and Dean’s Fellow for Earth a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
Episode 177
More than any one institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rates a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
Episode 173
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
Episode 172
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 153
With significant evolutions in digital technologies and media distribution in the past two decades, the business of storytelling through screens has …
1 year, 5 months ago
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
Episode 174
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 129
One of the most distinctive aspects of global capitalism in the last half century or so has been the increased role of the financial sector in the gl…
1 year, 6 months ago
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 1377
In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 1376
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from…
1 year, 6 months ago
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 185
Uncle Sam is watching, whether you like it or not. And the surveillance program the United States is building has as its foundation immigrants who ha…
1 year, 6 months ago