Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmerican Innovation, American Vitality: A Conversation with Chris Buskirk
Episode 108
How can we restore America's frontier spirit, foster innovation, and stave off decay? Chris Buskirk sits down to discuss his new book America and the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 360
The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century--why should the wealthiest country in the world also h…
2 years, 5 months ago
Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 150
In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Elise Andaya, "Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 359
The low-wage service industry is one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the US economy. Its workers disproportionately tend to be low-incom…
2 years, 5 months ago
Marina Welker, "Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 300
Indonesia is the world's second largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 per…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 211
In The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Kunal M. Parker explores the m…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Politics of Development: A Conversation with Claire Mcloughlin and David Hudson
Episode 14
Development is political but what does that mean for how we solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world today? A pathbreaking new book, The…
2 years, 5 months ago
Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)
Episode 187
India’s stock markets are booming. One calculation from Bloomberg puts India as the world’s fourth-largest equity market, overtaking Hong Kong, as do…
2 years, 5 months ago
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 101
For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and Chin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, "Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 97
The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population--now th…
2 years, 5 months ago