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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 …

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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 …
Public Policy May 27, 2021

A War on Global Poverty

The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

Joanne Meyerowitz

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton UP, 2021) provides a fresh account of US involvement in campaigns to end global …
Finance May 24, 2021

The Spirit of Green

The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World

William D. Nordhaus

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming?  Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William Nordhaus thinks so. In his new book, The Spirit of Green: The …
Economics May 18, 2021

The Promise of Bitcoin

The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You

Bobby C. Lee

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Bobby Lee about his book The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You (McGraw-Hill, 2021). Bobby Lee is a very interesting …
General History May 17, 2021

The Monopolists

Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

Mary Pilon

Hosted by Lee Pierce
The inside story of the world's most famous board game-a buried piece of American history with an epic scandal that continues today. The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind …
Economics May 11, 2021

The Great Crash 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

Hosted by Tim Jones
"A good knowledge of what happened in 1929 remains our best safeguard against the recurrence of the more unhappy events of those days", wrote John Kenneth Galbraith in The Great …
Economics May 7, 2021

Post Growth

Life after Capitalism

Tim Jackson

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Prof. Tim Jackson about his latest book: Post Growth, Life after Capitalism, published by Polity Books in 2021. The book starts with a reflection on the event …
Jewish Studies May 5, 2021

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex

The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

Lila Corwin Berman

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish …
Public Policy May 4, 2021

The Other Side of the Coin

Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures

Christopher G. Faricy and Christopher Ellis

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
In The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021), political scientists Christopher Ellis and Christopher Faricy examine public opinion towards social tax …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership May 3, 2021

Michael Blakey

Entrepreneur, Angel and Seed Investor

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
In this podcast Michael Blakey describes how as a strongly dyslexic child his relationship with schooling and formal education was very challenging. He credits his parents with putting him in …
Finance April 20, 2021

Probable Justice

Rethinking the Politics of Risk

Rachel Z. Friedman

Hosted by Daniel Peris
The emergence of individual and commercial insurance in Early Modern Europe required an understanding of probability. In Probable Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Risk (U Chicago Press, 2020), Rachel Friedman highlights the …
Public Policy April 13, 2021

Engine of Inequality

The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

Karen Petrou

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership April 12, 2021

Mungo Keulemans

CEO and Entrepreneur

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Mungo Keulemans talks about growing up in South Africa, working in the family business, his army experiences, his move to Europe, Japan and back to Europe. We hear about his …
European Studies April 12, 2021

The Legal History of the European Banking Union

How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira

Hosted by Tim Jones
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market …