New Books Network Podcast

Finance October 6, 2022

The Price of Time

The Real Story of Interest

Edward Chancellor

Hosted by Daniel Peris

Edward Chancellor's just published history of interest rates could not be better timed. As the world adjusts to rising rates after decades of falling ones, Chancellor's historical and sometimes polemical account …

Critical Theory September 29, 2022

Hegemony Now

How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back)

Alex Williams and Jeremy Gilbert

Hosted by Louisa Hann

Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it? We cannot change …

World Affairs September 21, 2022

The Meddlers

Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

Jamie Martin

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press, 2022) presents a pioneering history that traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts …

Education September 6, 2022

A Problem of Fit

How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities

Phillip B. Levine

Hosted by Thomas Discenna

According to A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities (U Chicago Press, 2022) a college education doesn't come with a sticker price and perhaps, he …

Economic and Business History September 5, 2022

Slouching Towards Utopia

An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

J. Bradford DeLong

Hosted by Javier Mejia

From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty …

Economics August 31, 2022

Understandable Economics

Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know

Howard Yaruss

Hosted by Daniel Moran

Incomes are stagnating, middle-class jobs are disappearing, economic growth is slowing, and the meager gains are mostly going to those who are already wealthy. More Americans than ever are frustrated …

Economic and Business History August 31, 2022

Are We Rich Yet?

The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain

Amy Edwards

Hosted by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

In this podcast, Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain (U California Press, 2022), provides a fascinating journey into her own research and how …

Finance August 25, 2022

The ESG Investing Handbook

Insights and Developments in Environmental, Social and Governance Investment

Becky O'Connor

Hosted by John Emrich

As global governments and regulators set an agenda for net zero carbon emissions, the focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria among investors, from pension scheme members to institutions …

Economics August 24, 2022

Cloudmoney

Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Brett Scott

Hosted by Utsav Saksena

In Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets (Harper Business, 2022), Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big …

Economic and Business History August 17, 2022

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America

Samuel Evan Milner

Hosted by John Emrich

Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political economy. In his book Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits …

Economics August 16, 2022

The Future of Money

How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

Eswar S. Prasad

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021) provides a cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the …

Finance August 10, 2022

How to Pay for College

A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education

Ann Garcia

Hosted by John Emrich

Providing your children with a good education is one of the best gifts you can give. But it’s not straightforward. Education costs and student loan debt are skyrocketing. In some cases …

Economic and Business History July 28, 2022

Pawned States

State Building in the Era of International Finance

Didac Queralt

Hosted by Javier Mejia

How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major …

Economics July 21, 2022

Doing Economics

What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t

Marc F. Bellemare

Hosted by 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 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 …

Finance June 28, 2022

Does Financial Repression Work?

A Conversation with Michael Pettis

Michael Pettis

Hosted by Robert Kowit

Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. He started his career in banking in 1987 just in time for the tidal wave of emerging …

Economic and Business History June 9, 2022

How the World Became Rich

The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin

Hosted by Javier Mejia

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? In How the World Became …

Economics June 7, 2022

Can Legal Weed Win?

The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics

Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner

Hosted by John Emrich

Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have …

Education May 31, 2022

Bankers in the Ivory Tower

The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education

Charlie Eaton

Hosted by Thomas Discenna

Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepping-stone to new economic opportunities. However, as …

Economic and Business History May 31, 2022

Sovereign Debt Diplomacies

Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony

Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas

Hosted by Javier Mejia

Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas' book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony (Oxford UP. 2021) aims to revisit the meaning of sovereign debt in relation to …