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Economics January 18, 2022

The Super Age

Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

Bradley Schurman

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near future, much …

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Medicine January 13, 2022

The First Shots

The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine

Brendan Borrell

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading the fight against …
Economic and Business History January 10, 2022

Nature′s Evil

A Cultural History of Natural Resources

Alexander Etkind

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use …
Russian and Eurasian Studies January 10, 2022

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past several centuries of Russian history. Widely diverse objects such as …
African Studies December 29, 2021

Making the World Global

U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary

Isaac A. Kamola

Hosted by Sara Katz
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct nation-states. As neoliberal …
Chinese Studies December 21, 2021

Disaggregating China, Inc.

State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order

Yeling Tan

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Once you understand that markets require public institutions of governance and regulation in order to function well, and further, you accept that nations may have different preferences over the shape …
Economics December 20, 2021

Economy Studies

A Guide to Rethinking Econom​ics Education

Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman

Hosted by Utsav Saksena
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It …
Economics December 17, 2021

Democratizing the Economics Debate

Pluralism and Research Evaluation

Carlo D'Ippoliti

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, Professor of Economics at the Department of statistical sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. We talked about Democratizing the Economics Debate; Pluralism and Research Evaluation. This was published …
Public Policy December 16, 2021

The Quest for a Divided Welfare State

Sweden in the Era of Privatization

John Lapidus

Hosted by Leo Nasskau
Generous welfare states are losing their key characteristics, not least in Sweden, where privatisation of funding has proceeded privatisation of provision, beginning in the 1990s. Supplementary exclusionary sources of welfare in …
Recall This Book December 16, 2021

"Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)

Recall this Buck 5

Daniel Souleles

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln …
Middle Eastern Studies December 13, 2021

Trials of Resilience

How Covid-19 Is Driving Economic Change in the Arab Gulf

Jarmo T. Kotilaine

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The Gulf region can no longer rely on the traditional growth drivers – oil, government spending, and large infrastructure projects. The anticipated rise in living standards must come by other …
Intellectual History December 8, 2021

Crafting Enlightenment

Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks

Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (Voltaire Foundation, 2021) argues that artisans of the long eighteenth-century on four different …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 8, 2021

Place and Nature

Essays in Russian Environmental History

David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova

Hosted by Samantha Lomb
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2021) is a collection of essays on environmental history spanning primarily the 19th and 20th centuries. Covering a wide …
American South December 8, 2021

Southern Journey

The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the …
American West January 19, 2022

The Settler Sea

California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

Traci Brynne Voyles

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The Salton Sea is a kaleidoscope. To some people, it's a waste land, a place of death only suitable for a dumping ground. For others, it's a clarion call, a …
Sociology January 19, 2022

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town

Colin Jerolmack

Hosted by Sebastián Rojas Cabal
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one …
Middle Eastern Studies January 12, 2022

The Egyptian Labor Corps

Race, Space, and Place in the First World War

Kyle J. Anderson

Hosted by Christopher Rose
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work …
East Asian Studies December 24, 2021

Diaspora’s Homeland

Modern China in the Age of Global Migration

Shelly Chan

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than …
American West December 23, 2021

Boosting a New West

Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916

John C. Putman

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
Inspired by Chicago’s successful 1893 World Columbian Exposition, the cities of Portland, Seattle, San Diego, and San Francisco all held fairs between 1905 and 1915. From the start of the …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight December 16, 2021

The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

Thom Hartmann

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Thom Hartmann about his new book The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (Berrett-Koehler, 2021). To hear Thom Hartmann tell …