Economics

Economics

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Interviews with economists about their new books.

The Secret Life of Central Bankers: On Quantitative Easing & The Idea of Central Bank Independence

November 24, 2024

The Secret Life of Central Bankers

Hosted by Gordon Katic

This is the final episode of Cited’s most recent season, Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise, a season that tells stories of the political and scholarly…

Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization: A Conversation with Begüm Adalet

November 24, 2024

Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization

Begüm Adalet
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon

International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the …

An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)

November 21, 2024

An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)

Mark Blyth

Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

From Click to Boom

Lizhi Liu
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…

How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?

November 15, 2024

How Can Going Inside the Political Mind Help Us to Better Understand Development?

Greg Power
Hosted by Nic Cheeseman

Why do efforts to build effective states and deliver services to citizens so often go wrong? And how can understanding the inside of the political min…

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

November 13, 2024

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

Hosted by Gordon Katic

This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly batt…

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

November 7, 2024

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri

In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…

Emiliana Vegas, "Let's Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

November 5, 2024

Let's Change the World

Emiliana Vegas
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

So many talented young people receive a great education and set out to make a difference in the world. Yet, they often find the global institutions on…

Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 5, 2024

A Third Path

Melissa Teixeira
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…

Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)

November 5, 2024

We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

Mara Kardas-Nelson
Hosted by Nick Pozek

In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi…

Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation

November 4, 2024

On "Automation"

Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff
Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern …

Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)

November 2, 2024

Crude Capitalism

Adam Hanieh
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon

Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer…

From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy

November 1, 2024

From Rubinomics to Bidenomics

Lily Geismer and Mark Blyth
Hosted by Gordon Katic

This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battle…

Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 31, 2024

Atlas of Finance

Dariusz Wojcik et al.
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…

Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 29, 2024

Floor Rules

Mark W. Geiger
Hosted by Meghan Cochran

Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that th…

Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)

October 29, 2024

The Neomercantilists

Eric Helleiner

At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…

Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)

October 27, 2024

Derivative Media

Andrew deWaard
Hosted by Pete Kunze

Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old?…

Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy

October 27, 2024

Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy

Hosted by Gordon Katic

Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usua…

Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)

October 25, 2024

Contested Money

Matilde Masso

Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the con…

Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)

October 24, 2024

The Invention of Scarcity

Deborah Valenze

A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and envi…