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About Daniel Peris

Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the host of the Keep Calm and Carry On Investing podcast and the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors.

Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. He can be reached at DanielxPeris@gmail.com or via Twitter @HistoryInvestor. His History and Investing blog and Keep Calm & Carry On Investing podcast are here.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Daniel:

Russian and Eurasian Studies January 11, 2023

Cigarettes and Soviets

Smoking in the USSR

Tricia Starks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Seeing cigarette smoking as a cultural phenomenon of Western modernity is perhaps easier when the test case is outside the US where the narrative is dominated by Big Bad Tobacco and …
Finance December 16, 2022

When McKinsey Comes to Town

The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

Hosted by Daniel Peris
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm (Doubleday, 2022) by Walt Bogdanich and …
Finance November 2, 2022

The Economy of Promises

Trust, Power, and Credit in America

Bruce G. Carruthers

Hosted by Daniel Peris
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power & Credit in America (Princeton UP, 2022) by Northwestern University Professor Bruce Carruthers is a far-reaching …
Finance October 6, 2022

The Price of Time

The Real Story of Interest

Edward Chancellor

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Edward Chancellor's just published history of interest rates could not be better timed. As the world adjusts to rising rates after decades of falling ones, Chancellor's historical and sometimes polemical account …
Art September 21, 2022

Pilgrimage to the Museum

Man's Search for God Through Art and Time

Stephen F. Auth

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God through Art and Time (Sophia Institute Press, 2022), Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and colorful journey through the history of Western …
Psychology June 17, 2022

Soul in the Game

The Art of a Meaningful Life

Vitaliy Katsenelson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is a book of inspiring stories and hard-won lessons on how to live a meaningful life, crafted by …
Finance January 25, 2022

The Revolution That Wasn't

GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

Spencer Jakab

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022), WSJ columnist Spencer Jakab weaves together personal narratives, the key market institutions, and social media to tell the fascinating …
Russian and Eurasian Studies January 10, 2022

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past several centuries of Russian history. Widely diverse objects such as …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 22, 2021

The Firebird and the Fox

Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks

Jeffrey Brooks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, is a summa of his lifetime study of Russian culture.  In doing so …
General History October 22, 2021

The Last Liberal Republican

An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy

John Roy Price

Hosted by Daniel Peris
History is told, it is said, by the victors. And so it is in regard to Richard Nixon. We all know how his presidency ended. What too few of us recall …
Higher Education October 18, 2021

The Economics of Higher Education

A Discussion with David Finegold

David Finegold

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In this episode, Daniel Peris, the host of the “Keep Calm and Carry On Investing” podcast, and David Finegold have a wide-ranging discussion of economics and governance questions inherent in …
Finance October 13, 2021

The Myth of Private Equity

An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments

Jeffrey C. Hooke

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing indictment of the high-flying world of private equity. Piece by …
Russian and Eurasian Studies October 12, 2021

Navalny

Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?

Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Everyone has heard of Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia's opposition to Putin's rule. But what do we really know of him? Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Oxford, 2021) provides the first detailed …
Finance September 3, 2021

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory

Investing That Matters

Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now showing its …
Intellectual History August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A History …
Russian and Eurasian Studies July 13, 2021

Weak Strongman

The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia

Timothy Frye

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Putin is not the unconstrained, all-powerful boogeyman he is made out to be in the popular Western media. So says Timothy Frye, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 14, 2021

Russia and America

The Asymmetric Rivalry

Andrei P. Tsygankov

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In recent times, US-Russia relations have deteriorated to what both sides acknowledge is an “all time low.” Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and Putin’s continued support for …
Finance May 24, 2021

The Spirit of Green

The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World

William D. Nordhaus

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming?  Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William Nordhaus thinks so. In his new book, The Spirit of Green: The …
Architecture May 14, 2021

Mosaic

War Monument Mystery

Louis Nelson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists, and the first …
Politics & Polemics April 26, 2021

Minds Wide Shut

How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

Morton Schapiro and Gary Saul Morson

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Two very thoughtful oddfellows--a labor economist and a Russian literature scholar--take on the world's problems in their newest collaboration, Minds Wide Shut How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us (Princeton University …
Finance April 20, 2021

Probable Justice

Rethinking the Politics of Risk

Rachel Z. Friedman

Hosted by Daniel Peris
The emergence of individual and commercial insurance in Early Modern Europe required an understanding of probability. In Probable Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Risk (U Chicago Press, 2020), Rachel Friedman highlights the …
Finance March 30, 2021

Boom and Bust

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

William Quinn and John D. Turner

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Are we in the midst of a financial bubble? Do the current valuations of the electronic vehicle stocks or their SPACs make you raise an eyebrow?  The trouble with bubbles is that …
Finance December 8, 2020

Profit and Prejudice

The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Paul Donovan

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Paul Donovan's Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Routledge, 2020) is a great example of what Robert Shiller has championed as narrative economics--pointing out the power …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 16, 2020

Russia's Capitalist Realism

Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Vadim Shneyder

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Vadim Shneyder's new book, Russia's Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov (Northwestern, 2020) examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton …