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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
August 9, 2022
The Future of Political Anger
A Conversation with Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth
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Owen Bennett-Jones
Trump’s voters. The yellow jackets in France. Putin’s base in Russia. The Brexiteers. One thing all these groups have in common is anger – anger at being left behind, anger …
Economics
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Middle Eastern Studies
August 5, 2022
Oil, the State, and War
The Foreign Policies of Petrostates
Emma Ashford
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Miranda Melcher
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022) by Dr. Emma Ashford presents a comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil …
Economics
August 4, 2022
The Effect
An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Nick Huntington-Klein
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Peter Lorentzen
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
Hosted by
Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
Politics & Polemics
August 3, 2022
Goliath
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
Matt Stoller
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Caleb Zakarin
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
July 28, 2022
What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You
Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics
Melina Palmer
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Dan Hill
Today I talked to Melina Palmer about her book What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics (Mango, 2021) Once you realize that the …
Historical Materialism
July 27, 2022
Automation and Autonomy
Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
James Steinhoff
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Reuben Niewenhuis
Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial …
Critical Theory
July 26, 2022
The Flexibility Paradox
Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation
Heejung Chung
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Dave O'Brien
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of …
Scholarly Communication
July 25, 2022
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
A Discussion with Benjamin Todd of "80,000 Hours"
Benjamin Todd
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Caleb Zakarin
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help students and graduates switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Benjamin Todd is the president and co-founder of …
Sociology
July 22, 2022
Showroom City
Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World
John Joe Schlichtman
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Michael Johnston
A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold …
Education
July 21, 2022
Labor's End
How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
Jason Resnikoff
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Thomas Discenna
Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work (U Illinois Press, 2021) traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political …
Economics
July 21, 2022
Doing Economics
What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t
Marc F. Bellemare
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Peter Lorentzen
Graduate students and newly-minted economists often find that while their time in graduate school taught them a lot about great research of the past and the methods needed to do …
Geography
July 20, 2022
Plant Life
The Entangled Politics of Afforestation
Rosetta S. Elkin
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Stentor Danielson
In Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including …
Economic and Business History
July 19, 2022
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History
Johan Fourie
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Javier Mejia
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 2022) is an entertaining and engaging guide to global economic history told for the first …
Economics
July 19, 2022
The Border Within
The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson
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Deidre Tyler
For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy reform have gone mostly unanswered. As the …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
July 14, 2022
Profit from the Source
Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core
Alenka Triplat
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Dan Hill
Today I talked to Alenka Triplat about Profit from the Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core (HBR Press, 2022). Want to know the challenges bedeviling NATO as it seeks …
Economics
July 14, 2022
China's Contained Resource Curse
How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations
Vivian Jing Zhan
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Peter Lorentzen
Contrary to intuition, many countries have found that having abundant natural resources such as petroleum or diamonds may be a curse as much as a blessing. Broad-based economic development may …
Environmental Studies
July 5, 2022
A People's Green New Deal
Max Ajl
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Eyad Houssami
The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global …
Geography
July 5, 2022
The Value of a Whale
On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Adrienne Buller
Hosted by
Stentor Danielson
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the …
South Asian Studies
July 4, 2022
Properties of Rent
Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
Sushmita Pati
Hosted by
Saronik Bosu
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and …
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