Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrendan O'Brien, "Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It" (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
Episode 154
Nobody who sits in traffic on Sedona, Arizona's main stretch or stands shoulder-to-shoulder in its many souvenir shops would call it a ghost town. Ne…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 10
Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.
In this episode, our host Jing Wang discusses the book The Labor of Reinvention…
3 years, 3 months ago
Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 205
When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auto…
3 years, 3 months ago
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 158
In From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022), Professor Marco Grasso examines the respo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Emily Flitter, "The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America" (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2022)
Episode 299
In 2018, Emily Flitter received a tip that Morgan Stanley had fired a Black employee without cause. Flitter had been searching for a way to investiga…
3 years, 3 months ago
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
Episode 392
How can we build a better social and political settlement? In Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality (Policy Pres…
3 years, 3 months ago
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
Episode 108
Our Recall this Buck series, back in 2020 and 2021, explored the history of money, ranging from the earliest forms of labor IOUs to the modern world …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
Episode 68
Amidst all the talk of a green revolution what about the blue stuff? There are the seas that will wash over inhabited land, there’s the sea economy w…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Episode 120
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, ba…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Innovators Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas
Episode 118
What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizatio…
3 years, 3 months ago