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Finance
Critical Theory November 9, 2020

The Asset Economy

Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper

Hosted by Tim Jones
“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faster rate than both inflation and …

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World Affairs November 6, 2020

Capitalisms

Towards a Global History

Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the …
European Studies November 5, 2020

Money and Life

Ewald Nowotny

Hosted by Tim Jones
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy in US history - so triggering …
Political Science November 2, 2020

The Industrialists

How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism

Jennifer Delton

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Historians often portray the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) as a conservative force in debates over free enterprise, battles against unions and government regulation, and the rise of capitalism in …
Economics October 22, 2020

Seeking Virtue in Finance

Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry

JC de Swaan

Hosted by Daniel Peris
JC de Swaan does not shy from a challenge. In his new book, Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2020), de Swaan …
Economics October 12, 2020

Uncharted

How to Map and Navigate the Future Together

Margaret Heffernan

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
Today I spoke with Dr Margaret Heffernan about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together (Simon and Schuster, 2020). Margaret produced programmes for the BBC …
European Studies October 8, 2020

Currency, Credit and Crisis

Central Banking in Ireland and Europe

Patrick Honohan

Hosted by Tim Jones
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mismanaged, and its …
British Studies October 6, 2020

Money for Nothing

The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

Thomas Levenson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Modern finance isn't really all that modern. Three centuries ago, Great Britain's need for money to fight its wars, the appearance of joint stock companies, and the emerging quantification of …
American Studies September 28, 2020

The Vanishing American Dream

A Frank Look at the Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans

Gene Ludwig

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of …
Economics September 21, 2020

Better Business

How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism

Christopher Marquis

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Prof. Christopher Marquis, Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University. His latest research book tells the story of an …
American Studies September 9, 2020

Bank Notes and Shinplasters

The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic

Joshua Greenberg

Hosted by Daniel Peris
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple. During the course of the 20th century, most of us have gotten used …
Economics September 4, 2020

Dark Data

Why What You Don't Know Matters

David J. Hand

Hosted by Cory Brunson
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand's new book Dark Data …
British Studies September 4, 2020

Brexit And Financial Regulation

J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove

Hosted by Tim Jones
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with no successor trade agreement …
Middle Eastern Studies September 1, 2020

Money, Markets, and Monarchies

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East

Adam Hanieh

Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation …
European Studies August 28, 2020

Walking the Highwire

Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis

Olli Rehn

Hosted by Tim Jones
Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspective of an insider who now sits on the …
World Affairs August 25, 2020

False Alarm

How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Should climate change policy be subject to a cost-benefit analysis leading to a variety of policy choices? Or is it so critical that the only "proper" path is immediate and …
European Studies August 13, 2020

Economics of Monetary Union

Paul De Grauwe

Hosted by Tim Jones
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020)has become a standard text for undergraduates seeking to understand …
European Studies August 7, 2020

The Left Case Against the EU

Costas Lapavitsas

Hosted by Daniel Lucas
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer …
German Studies July 14, 2020

A Very Square Peg

Negative Interest

Dr. Brian Collins

Hosted by Brian Collins
Warning: Economics. In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1934, in which …
Economics July 13, 2020

What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory?

A Policy Critique

Gerald Epstein

Hosted by Tim Jones
Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure economic philosophy has been gaining a growing following on the …