Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLong-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy
Episode 5
Salim Furth (Senior Research Fellow and and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center) joins the podcast to discuss his background as a macro…
3 years ago
Daniel Satinsky, "Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 251
Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes (Routledge, 2023) captures the essence of the period when Russians and America…
3 years ago
Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies
Episode 4
Kyle Hauptman (National Credit Union Administration Vice Chairman) speaks on his beginnings working in finance, as an economic policy advisor on the …
3 years ago
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
Episode 1368
In their remarkable new book Slavery, Capitalism, and the Industrial Revolution (Polity, 2023), Professor Maxine Berg and Professor Pat Hudson “follo…
3 years ago
IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System
Episode 3
Milton Friedman student and University of Chicago-trained monetary economist Warren Coats (Johns Hopkins fellow, former IMF economist and central ban…
3 years ago
40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘
Episode 1
It's been 40 years since Milton Friedman's famous ten-part television series 'Free To Choose' was broadcast on PBS. Rob Chatfield, President and CEO …
3 years ago
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Episode 61
Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. “…
3 years ago
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes, "When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America" (North Atlantic Books, 2023)
Episode 165
Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or d…
3 years ago
Daniel R. Reichman, "Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 258
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork,…
3 years ago
Christian Krohn-Hansen, "Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 256
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has bee…
3 years ago