Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 73
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 231
Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volum…
2 years, 2 months ago
Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 160
The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovativ…
2 years, 2 months ago
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Episode 108
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nick Grono, "How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World" (BenBella Books, 2024)
Episode 59
Non-profit organizations play an indispensable role in the world today, and are consistently rated higher than governments, the media or businesses i…
2 years, 2 months ago
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 318
In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly …
2 years, 2 months ago
Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)
Episode 159
What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our so…
2 years, 2 months ago
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising exist…
2 years, 2 months ago
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 475
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
Episode 78
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Waterhouse, full-as-full-can- be Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel …
2 years, 2 months ago