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Interviews with economists about their new books.
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…
International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the …
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…
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
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…
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…
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…
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…
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi…
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern …
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…
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…
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…
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…
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old?…
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…
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…
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and envi…