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Back to SearchThe Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
Episode 60
The Library of Mistakes is a library located in Edinburgh, Scotland dedicated to financial and economic history. Russell Napier, the founder and keep…
1 year, 7 months ago
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 515
Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? Late Soviet Britain: Why Ma…
1 year, 7 months ago
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 123
Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Episode 170
Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right…
1 year, 7 months ago
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Episode 239
China's household debt has exploded from 11% of GDP in 2006 to over 62% today—a profound transformation in a traditionally savings-focused society. H…
1 year, 7 months ago
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 123
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero reveals…
1 year, 7 months ago
S4E28 Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
Episode 140
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, I spoke with Janie Nitze, co-author of Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (Harper, 2004), a book wr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 229
Hollywood Unions (Rutgers UP, 2024) is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and tel…
1 year, 7 months ago
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 120
How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Succes…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
Episode 44
Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet – all this infrastructu…
1 year, 8 months ago