Brendan Greeley
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1,195 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
Brendan Greeley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want to go get a PhD in the history of money.
And they all said, no, do not do that.
That's a terrible idea.
As PhDs generally do.
But I applied to the program at Princeton because Harold James is there.
He's a legendary financial historian.
And I love the way he works because he takes finance seriously.
And sometimes it's difficult to study the history of money because it does end up sounding like this 2 a.m.
dorm conversation.
That frustrates me.
I actually don't think money is that hard to understand.
It's just finance.
And so Harold James takes the finance of money seriously.
And I was able to, you know, while I was taking classes there, think about this book and also make myself feel a little more comfortable that the book is in fact, it rests on solid ground.
The people that I found as secondary sources, they are known to other people, right?
And I am, this book is written within a tradition of thinking about money as credit and that, but also to your point, like, yeah, it's great.
I love going back and getting a PhD.
There was a moment early on where I was doing a project with another grad student and the
They're all in their 20s and I make no sense to them because I was like 47 when I started it and I had four children and everything about me was a mystery.
They had a pool going for a while and whether or not I was on Instagram.
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