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Finance
An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.
November 5, 2024
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi…
November 3, 2024
Savings and Trust
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure …
November 2, 2024
Crude Capitalism
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…
November 1, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics
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…
October 31, 2024
Atlas of Finance
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…
October 29, 2024
Floor Rules
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…
October 29, 2024
The Neomercantilists
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…
October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
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…
October 27, 2024
Derivative Media
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old?…
October 25, 2024
Contested Money
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…
October 16, 2024
The Power and the Money
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power? In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in …
October 15, 2024
Commercial Banking in Kenya
Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right t…
October 7, 2024
Corporatocracy
What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicia…
October 1, 2024
Dollars and Dominion
There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentieth century. In Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers …
September 27, 2024
Vampire State
State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. Ho…
September 25, 2024
The Black Tax
In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of ineq…
September 22, 2024
The Spectre of State Capitalism
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial cri…
September 1, 2024
Unexpected Revolutionaries
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
August 22, 2024
Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume…
August 21, 2024
The Silver Empire
The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with-and even to benefit…