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August 16, 2022
The Future of Money
How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Eswar S. Prasad
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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 …
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An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.
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
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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
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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 …
Finance
April 28, 2022
Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing
How to Live your Values and Achieve your Financial Goals with ESG, SRI, and Impact Investing
Larry E. Swedroe and Samuel C. Adams
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John Emrich
The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
April 28, 2022
The Synergy Solution
How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game
Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens
Hosted by
Dan Hill
Today I talked to Mark L. Sirower about his book (co-authored with Jeff Weirens) The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game (HBP, 2022). First impressions really do matter, and …
Economic and Business History
April 26, 2022
In Defense of Public Debt
Barry Eichengreen et al.
Hosted by
Javier Mejia
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted apocalyptic warnings about the …
Finance
April 20, 2022
The Bond King
How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
Mary Childs
Hosted by
John Emrich
From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond …
Gender Studies
April 19, 2022
The Rise of Women and Wealth
Our Fight for Freedom, Equality, and Control of Our Financial Future
Cindy Couyoumjian
Hosted by
Deidre Tyler
Cindy Couyoumjian--founder of Cinergy Financial, with over thirty-six years of experience--is on a mission to empower women to stop being spectators and enter the financial arena; to stand up and …
High Theory
April 18, 2022
Debt
A Discussion with Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi talks about the idea of debt, mainly with respect to the book by David Graeber on its history. This episode is dedicated to his memory. Huzaifa is …
Media
April 15, 2022
The World Computer
Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
Jonathan Beller
Hosted by
Marci Mazzarotto
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed …
Business, Management, and Marketing
April 14, 2022
Subprime Attention Crisis
Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Tim Hwang
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process …
Public Policy
April 8, 2022
Fixing Social Security
The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age
R. Douglas Arnold
Hosted by
Stephen Pimpare
Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends—longer lifespans and declining birthrates—mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than …
Economics
April 6, 2022
One Road to Riches?
How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development
Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen
Hosted by
Sidney Michelini
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this "stateness-first" argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development …
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