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Economics May 24, 2023

The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks

A System of Debt or Development?

Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Adrian Bazbauers and Susan Engel’s 2021 book The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development? (Routledge, 2023) explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development …
Economics November 11, 2022

Divided Environments

An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security

Jan Selby, Gabrielle Daoust, and Clemens Hoffmann

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increased drought, more famine, heightened social vulnerability, and large-scale political …
Economics April 7, 2022

Indefensible

Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

Nic Marsh et al.

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate …
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 …
Middle Eastern Studies March 29, 2022

Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter

The US, Israel and the Palestinians

Jørgen Jensehaugen

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
The history of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East is marked by numerous stark failures and a few ephemeral successes. Jimmy Carter's short-lived Middle East diplomatic strategy constitutes an exception …
Economics August 25, 2021

The Economics of Violence

How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism

Gary Shiffman

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Dr. Gary Shiffman’s book The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism (Cambridge UP, 2020) serves as a fantastic introduction to anyone interested …
Economics November 17, 2020

Reversing Climate Change

How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy

Graciela Chichilnisky

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky’s new book Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy is perhaps the single best thing I have read about climate …
Economics September 23, 2020

Development Economics

A Critical Introduction

Shahrukh Khan

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Dr. Shahrukh Khan's new textbook Development Economics: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2019) is a fantastic book for teachers and students trying to get into the field of development economics. Covering …
Economics March 26, 2020

Randomistas

How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World

Andrew Leigh

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
From the unending quest to turn metal into gold to the major discoveries that reveal how the universe works, experiments have always been a critical part of the hard sciences …