Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Episode 272
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to n…
2 years, 4 months ago
Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth
Episode 10
Esoteric and frequently disinterested in the public good, financial institutions can be hard to navigate for those seeking to advance social welfare.…
2 years, 4 months ago
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 460
What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Y…
2 years, 5 months ago
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 183
Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact po…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tom Mueller, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 218
Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive c…
2 years, 5 months ago
Stephen J. Silvia, "The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants" (IRL Press, 2023)
Episode 152
The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants (IRL Press, 2023) is the first in-depth assessment of the United Auto W…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
Episode 147
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profes…
2 years, 5 months ago
Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 102
A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024), C…
2 years, 5 months ago
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
Episode 30
Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monet…
2 years, 5 months ago
Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
Episode 151
In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle – the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening g…
2 years, 5 months ago