Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe 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
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 11 months ago
How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?
Episode 24
Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political mi…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
Episode 71
This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly bat…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
Episode 11
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a fo…
1 year, 11 months ago
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
Episode 6
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the pract…
1 year, 11 months ago
Emiliana Vegas, "Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Episode 162
So many talented young people receive a great education and set out to make a difference in the world. Yet, they often find the global institutions o…
1 year, 11 months ago
Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 116
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” be…
1 year, 11 months ago