New Books in Economics

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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy
Jun 5, 2025 – 01:03:52
Robert Chernomas, Gregory Chernomas, and Ian Hudson, "The American Gene: Unnatural Selection Along Class, Race, and Gender Lines" (Routledge, 2025)
Jun 2, 2025 – 26:31
John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jun 1, 2025 – 01:45:13
Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
May 31, 2025 – 36:28
Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
May 25, 2025 – 01:05:27
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
May 23, 2025 – 53:50
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 21, 2025 – 01:03:56
Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
May 19, 2025 – 46:19
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
May 17, 2025 – 57:26
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
May 15, 2025 – 55:21
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
May 14, 2025 – 46:31
Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024)
May 12, 2025 – 26:46
Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 11, 2025 – 49:46
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
May 10, 2025 – 01:09:28
Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 9, 2025 – 01:13:18
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
May 8, 2025 – 41:31
Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
May 7, 2025 – 01:29:18
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
May 5, 2025 – 01:15:06
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
May 5, 2025 – 01:15:56
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
May 4, 2025 – 51:15
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
May 3, 2025 – 59:43
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
May 2, 2025 – 44:27
Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
May 2, 2025 – 01:04:29
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
May 1, 2025 – 49:08
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2025 – 44:52
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025 – 01:06:18
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2025 – 01:21:22
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2025 – 57:00
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Apr 22, 2025 – 01:14:53
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 21, 2025 – 46:19
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:04:57
China’s Trade War Strategy: How Xi Jinping Uses Autocracy, Fear, and Innovation to Compete with the West
Apr 18, 2025 – 48:00
Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts
Apr 17, 2025 – 58:33
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Apr 12, 2025 – 36:04
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Apr 10, 2025 – 54:50
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 9, 2025 – 55:15
Populism, Power, and the Crisis of Globalism: A Conversation with Wolfgang Streeck
Apr 3, 2025 – 39:28
Walls, Warnings, and the War on Fentanyl: Peter Andreas on Trump’s Border Politics
Mar 31, 2025 – 35:01
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
Mar 25, 2025 – 25:18
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Mar 24, 2025 – 59:23
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025 – 34:49
Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 20, 2025 – 01:13:36
Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 49:26
Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025 – 43:07
Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman, "Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices" (Yale UP, 2022)
Mar 17, 2025 – 54:54
Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024)
Mar 16, 2025 – 33:03
Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024)
Mar 15, 2025 – 27:41
The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
Mar 10, 2025 – 54:53
Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
Mar 10, 2025 – 46:02
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:35:02

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