Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLisa Fletcher and Elizabeth Leane, "Space, Place, and Bestsellers: Moving Books" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 70
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsel…
2 years, 1 month ago
Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
Episode 33
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, th…
2 years, 1 month ago
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 381
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer (U California Press, 2024) unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Episode 322
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targete…
2 years, 1 month ago
Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 161
Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian r…
2 years, 1 month ago
Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Episode 241
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks…
2 years, 1 month ago
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 734
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical thin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 56
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Human Advantage: A Conversation with Jay Richards
Episode 116
In this episode, we explore the insights of Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines (For…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 116
We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this st…
2 years, 2 months ago