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Finance
An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.
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
Fintech Capital
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University …
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 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 …
June 15, 2026
Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still und…
June 13, 2026
Wild Tides
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…
June 3, 2026
Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End
If governments provide financial support for affordable housing, should they provide support for inhabitants directly, or rather for the construction …
May 30, 2026
Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
More than any single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global financial markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rat…
May 16, 2026
How Low Interest Rates Change the World
How Low Interest Rates Change the World: Global Trends Caused by Low Rates and Emerging Factors Shaping the Future of Rates (Oxford UP, 2025) explore…
May 12, 2026
Dollar Dominance
In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It (P…
April 30, 2026
King Dollar
The U.S. dollar is the world’s most important currency. Trade is priced in dollars, the world’s central banks keep U.S. dollars in reserve, some place…
April 28, 2026
The Insatiable Machine
How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is …
April 27, 2026
Empire of AI
In this episode, host Joe Williams talks to tech journalist Karen Hao, whose recent book Empire of AI sheds light on the inner workings of AI giants t…
April 13, 2026
Money Beyond Borders
Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international a…
April 2, 2026
What's Global about Sven Beckert's Capitalism (Paul Kramer, JP)
John is joined by the brilliant and affable Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt (The Blood of Government) to discuss Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin, 202…