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Finance
An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.
October 29, 2026
Karmic Winds
Karmic Winds: Reflections from “The Smartest Guy in Hollywood” (Rare Bird Books, 2026) is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffm…
October 23, 2026
Art for War
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displac…
October 23, 2026
Forgive Us Our Debts
When American churches face financial difficulties, a disproportionately high number of Black churches reorganize under chapter 11 bankruptcy. There a…
October 7, 2026
Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World
Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century,…
October 2, 2026
Credit to the Nation
From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advanc…
September 23, 2026
A Daring Enterprise
What happens when the United States launches an unconventional foreign aid program in the aftermath of a national uprising? In this behind-the-scenes …
September 3, 2026
The Grant Writing Guide
The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars (Princeton UP, 2023) is an essential handbook for writing fundable grants. This easy-to-use guide fea…
August 28, 2026
Foul Play in the Nonprofit Sector
It is quite easy to find corruption within nonprofits. This is particularly the case in the subsector of not-for-profits that are incorporated as trad…
August 26, 2026
A New Era of Philanthropy
Can philanthropy be an anti-racist, feminist, relational, and joyful expression of solidarity? This book argues that it not only can be for the future…
August 25, 2026
How Economics Discovered Women
In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The resu…
August 18, 2026
This World in a Teacup
Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, …
July 31, 2026
Coding Capitalism
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After W…
July 30, 2026
The Next China Is Still China
What’s going on in the Chinese economy? China reported GDP growth of just 4.3% last quarter. Consumption is sluggish, exports are booming, electronics…
July 28, 2026
Authoritarian Markets
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978 China …
July 28, 2026
Fintech Capital
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University …
July 20, 2026
The Almighty Dollar
America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the worl…
July 19, 2026
Against Money
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card at the grocery store, in looming student-loan debts, in the prices of things w…
July 4, 2026
Financial Inclusion
The number of people in the world with a bank account or money service provider increased by 2 billion over the past decade. This phenomenon ref…
July 1, 2026
Privatising Humanity
Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets (Manchester UP, 2026) is the latest book from Dr Kate Bayliss, a Senior Re…
June 23, 2026
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Indonesia is often framed as a key arena of China-Japan-US competition in the Second Cold War. In this episode, we talk with Trissia Wijaya about her …