Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 350
Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their pl…
3 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
Episode 85
Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism?…
3 years, 2 months ago
Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 405
Why are our lives filled with so much stuff? In Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America (U Chicago Press, 2023), Wendy Woloson, Professor and Chair…
3 years, 2 months ago
Simone M. Müller, "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 162
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in searc…
3 years, 2 months ago
Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century" (Transcript Publishing, 2022)
Episode 76
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of Wallerst…
3 years, 2 months ago
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 404
Why does the financial sector matter? In How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (Bristol UP, 2023), Philip Roscoe, a …
3 years, 2 months ago
Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 81
The rise of the global financial industry is treated by many economists as a critical component of the rise of neoliberalism. What few address is the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony, "Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 75
Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends nati…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Episode 72
The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla…
3 years, 2 months ago
Logistic Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Episode 137
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of t…
3 years, 2 months ago