Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Episode 116
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustibl…
3 years, 3 months ago
Rose Hackman, "Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
Episode 136
In some ways, Hackman’s Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power (Flatiron Books, 2023) serves as a natural u…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 14
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation …
3 years, 3 months ago
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 138
Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford University Pre…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
Episode 110
The rise of the Indian information technology industry is a remarkable economic success story. Software and services exports from India amounted to l…
3 years, 4 months ago
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Episode 50
In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
Episode 66
By providing capital to back the ideas and efforts of others, venture capitalists can make absurd amounts of money. But there is another way of looki…
3 years, 4 months ago
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 297
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify by…
3 years, 4 months ago
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 137
During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 52
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumpti…
3 years, 4 months ago