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Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
Episode 155
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions ev…
2 years, 2 months ago
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 106
Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been debates and conflicts over the proper roles of fede…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 472
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperat…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 154
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox…
2 years, 3 months ago
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 471
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the…
2 years, 3 months ago
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Episode 144
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Hamilton Nolan, "The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor" (Hachette Books, 2024)
Episode 190
Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline…
2 years, 3 months ago
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 52
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Han…
2 years, 3 months ago
Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 153
Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History an…
2 years, 3 months ago
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Episode 36
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan…
2 years, 3 months ago