Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 198
The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy (U Illinois Press, 2024) offers a visionary program f…
1 year, 10 months ago
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Episode 85
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, an…
1 year, 10 months ago
Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 497
What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 260
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (Duke University Press, 2024) provides a much-needed study of the political economy of music streaming, drawing f…
1 year, 10 months ago
J. Mijin Cha, "A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 196
To meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, a transition away from fossil fuels must occ…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
Episode 164
The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley, 2024) describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Ba…
1 year, 11 months ago
Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization
Episode 112
International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
Episode 72
This is the final episode of Cited’s most recent season, Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise, a season that tells stories of the political and scholarl…
1 year, 11 months ago
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Episode 138
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Episode 494
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny.…
1 year, 11 months ago