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Back to SearchColleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 155
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US …
3 years, 2 months ago
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 155
A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US …
3 years, 2 months ago
Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
Episode 62
Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia. He is the author of four books, the most recent of whi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 97
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy?
Focusing on the special economic zones resul…
3 years, 2 months ago
Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy, "Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 402
Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been a…
3 years, 2 months ago
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
Episode 59
The World Economic Forum has become the bugbear of the right-wing in Canada, and beyond. Conspiracies swirl about how this shadowy, globalist cabal w…
3 years, 2 months ago
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 80
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalis…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Supply Chains: A Discussion with Rob Handfield
Episode 71
Supply chains matter. And one of the most compelling defences of the capitalist system is that for all its various dysfunctions, it does at least ens…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ronan Bolton, "Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 79
Ronan Bolton's book Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) charts the emergence and ea…
3 years, 3 months ago
Thomas Piketty on Capitalism and Inequality (Adaner Usmani, JP)
Episode 109
Is Thomas Piketty the world’s most famous economic historian ? A superstar enemy of plutocratic capitalism who wrote a pathbreaking bestseller, Capit…
3 years, 3 months ago