New Books Network

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

Hosted by 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 …

Finance April 5, 2022

Restarting the Future

How to Fix the Intangible Economy

Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake

Hosted by John Emrich

The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future …

Science, Technology, and Society April 5, 2022

Where Futures Converge

Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub

Robert Buderi

Hosted by Galina Limorenko

Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet.” It's a life science hub, hosting Biogen, Moderna, Pfizer, Takeda, and others. It's a …

Critical Theory April 4, 2022

Hedged Out

Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street

Megan Tobias Neely

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Is the finance industry fair? In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, an assistant professor in the Department of Organisation at …

Law March 31, 2022

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the “republican form of government” the …

Intellectual History March 30, 2022

Owning the Sun

A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines

Alexander Zaitchik

Hosted by Keith Krueger

Although the dividing line between private life and public responsibilities can never be definite and clear, there is a moral threshold which is crossed both by those who assume power …

The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones March 29, 2022

The Future of Rational Decision Making

A Discussion with Olivier Sibony

Olivier Sibony

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones

In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the future of rational decision making with Professor Olivier Sibony who after 25 years with McKinsey & Company in France, is now at HEC …

The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones March 22, 2022

The Future of Disorder

A Discussion with Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones

In her book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century (Oxford UP, 2022), Cambridge academic Helen Thompson gets beyond the ephemeral and analyses instead the role of more fundamental drivers …

Economics March 15, 2022

The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking

Two Centuries of Banking

Vikrant Pande

Hosted by Utsav Saksena

From princes to peasants, musicians to masons, cement plant owners to casual labourers—the State Bank of India (SBI) has been the go-to bank for the people of India. Widely trusted …

Politics & Polemics March 11, 2022

Davos Man

How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy

Peter S. Goodman

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-members of the billionaire class-chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the …

Eastern European Studies March 7, 2022

Dark Finance

Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe

Fabio Mattioli

Hosted by Mathias Fuelling

Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe (Stanford University Press, 2020) offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe …