Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchZeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
Episode 1085
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the fu…
2 years, 11 months ago
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
Episode 25
Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, h…
2 years, 11 months ago
Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
Episode 1376
Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulat…
2 years, 11 months ago
Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 134
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appe…
2 years, 11 months ago
Luke Moffett, "Reparations and War: Finding Balance in Repairing the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 52
For thousands of years, reparations have been used to secure the end of war and to alleviate its deleterious consequences. While human rights law est…
3 years ago
Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth
Episode 13
John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the podcast…
3 years ago
Maitrayee Deka, "Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 316
Michael O. Johnston sits down with Maitrayee Deka, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex to discuss her new book Traders and Tinker…
3 years ago
Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth
Episode 11
David Mitch, an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, joins the podcast to discuss the The Ch…
3 years ago
Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Episode 1371
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits …
3 years ago
Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)
Episode 142
Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve…
3 years ago