New Books Network

About Keith Krueger

Currently teaching in SILC Business School at Shanghai University - can be reached at: keith.krueger@uts.edu.au
Like a good university town bookstore coffeehouse where poetry is appreciated and conversations have the spark of a double espresso - where ideas peer out and over shelves of books like northern stars - this seems not unlike the channeled compendium of author's insights right here on the NBN.

NBN Episodes hosted by Keith:

American Studies October 20, 2020

A Foreign Policy for the Left

Michael Walzer

Hosted by Keith Krueger
In my old age, I try to argue more quietly, though I still believe that sharp disagreement is a sign of political seriousness. What engaged citizens think and say matters; we should aim to get it right and to defeat those who get it wrong. I understand the very limited impact of what I write, but I continue to believe that the stakes are high. – Michael Walzer (2018) These …
Economics July 31, 2020

The Law of Political Economy

Transformation in the Function of Law

Poul Kjaer

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Legal and political theories are not descriptions of brute facts. Nor are they merely postulated ideals or aspirations. Theories reflect and are reflected in our social relationships … Moral and …
East Asian Studies June 29, 2020

Superpower Interrupted

The Chinese History of the World

Michael Schuman

Hosted by Keith Krueger
We stand on the eve of a different kind of world, but comprehending it is difficult: we are so accustomed to dealing with the paradigms of the contemporary world that …
European Studies May 4, 2020

Constituent Power

A History

Lucia Rubinelli

Hosted by Keith Krueger
"The intellectual historian has to start with the words." – Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? When political theorists write about the principle of popular power, that is, who are …
Critical Theory April 21, 2020

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

Hosted by Keith Krueger
It seems easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness …
Economics April 2, 2020

The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

Katharina Pistor

Hosted by Keith Krueger
"Most lawyers, most actors, most soldiers and sailors, most athletes, most doctors, and most diplomats feel a certain solidarity in the face of outsiders, and, in spite of other differences …
East Asian Studies March 18, 2020

Just Hierarchy

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei

Hosted by Keith Krueger
What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies? Are there differences in how hierarchy is viewed and valued in China compared with other countries? Which forms of social hierarchy …