Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCéline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 453
In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitati…
2 years, 5 months ago
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)
Episode 88
Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to work on time or a military general leading troops into war, ri…
2 years, 6 months ago
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
Episode 352
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to ad…
2 years, 6 months ago
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 473
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generati…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 99
In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues that…
2 years, 6 months ago
John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 132
Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium (Bloomsbury, 2024) explores the transition underway in podcasting by consideri…
2 years, 6 months ago
Teri Ann Finneman et al., "Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journalism in the US and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 74
Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journal…
2 years, 6 months ago
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 364
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are rac…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 148
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr…
2 years, 6 months ago
Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 97
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Tele…
2 years, 6 months ago