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Finance
Technology October 25, 2021

Building the New Economy

Data As Capital

Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Data is now central to the economy, government, and health systems—so why are data and the AI systems that interpret the data in the hands of so few people? Alex …

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An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.

Politics & Polemics October 18, 2021

Outgrowing Capitalism

Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose

Marco Dondi

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
In Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose (Fast Company Press, 2021), Marco Dondi sheds light on the fact that most people do not have the economic security to …
The Future of Higher Education October 18, 2021

The Economics of Higher Education

A Discussion with David Finegold

David Finegold

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In this episode, Daniel Peris, the host of the “Keep Calm and Carry On Investing” podcast, and David Finegold have a wide-ranging discussion of economics and governance questions inherent in …
Finance October 13, 2021

The Myth of Private Equity

An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments

Jeffrey C. Hooke

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing indictment of the high-flying world of private equity. Piece by …
Economics October 6, 2021

Discovering Prices

Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints

Paul Milgrom

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Neoclassical economic theory shows that under the right conditions, prices alone can guide markets to efficient outcomes. But what if it it’s hard to find the right price? In many …
Economics October 5, 2021

Who Gets What -- and Why

The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design

Alvin E. Roth

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth explains his pioneering work in the …
Critical Theory September 15, 2021

Trade and Nation

How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

Emily Erikson

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Columbia UP, 2021), Emily Erikson, Associate Professor of …
Economics September 7, 2021

The Foundations of Antitrust

Events, Ideas, and Doctrines

Gregory Werden

Hosted by Tim Jones
Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking. Political threats to break up the tech giants or …
Finance September 3, 2021

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory

Investing That Matters

Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now showing its …
Economic and Business History September 1, 2021

China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937

Austin Dean

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no …
Economics August 26, 2021

Why Trust Matters

An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us

Benjamin Ho

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Do you trust corporations? Do you trust politicians? Do you trust the science? Does anyone trust anyone anymore? In Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us …
Intellectual History August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A History …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast August 2, 2021

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio

The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (Princeton UP, 2021) examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten …
European Studies July 28, 2021

Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis

A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank

Massimo Rostagno et al.

Hosted by Tim Jones
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank published the results of a thoroughgoing …
Intellectual History July 26, 2021

Speculation

A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

Gayle Rogers

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopian thinking to high-risk stock …
Political Science July 19, 2021

Democracy Declined

The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

Mallory E. SoRelle

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Americans rely on credit to provide for their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and other daily necessities and the 2008 financial crisis demonstrated how they relied on private financial institutions that …
Philosophy June 24, 2021

Colonial Debts

The Case of Puerto Rico

Rocío Zambrana

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambrana theorizes the way debt has …
General History June 22, 2021

Inside Money

Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power

Zachary Karabell

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 1800 a Belfast linen merchant named Alexander Brown emigrated with his wife and eldest son to Baltimore. Today his family’s name lives on in the investment firm Brown Brothers …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership June 8, 2021

Why Startups Fail

A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

Tom Eisenmann

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Why do many startups fail? Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School realised that even he didn’t really know the answer, despite a lifetime teaching entrepreneurship, and decided …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 2, 2021

A Full-Value Ruble

The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union

Kristy Ironside

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In spite of Karl Marx's proclamation that money would become obsolete under Communism, the ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. In fact, although Western economists typically concluded that …