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Paul Blustein, "King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency" (Yale UP, 2025)
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. dollar is the world’s most important currency. Trade is priced in dollars, the world’s central banks keep U.S. dollars in reserve, some p...
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is ...
Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Thanks for reaching out. I'm glad you're here! Do you have any questions or thoughts about the recent discussion with Karen Hao on AI and its s...
Shredding Capitalism with Sven Beckert (Paul Kramer, JP)
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
John is joined by the brilliant and affable Paul Kramer of Vanderbilt (The Blood of Government) to discuss Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin,...
Eric Ries, "Incorruptible" (Authors Equity, 2026)
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Ries shares how financial 'gravity' pulls great companies away from their founders' purpose, and his solutions in his new book Incorruptible ...
J. S. Nelson, "Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2021)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The book places special emphasis on the relationship between corporations, managers, and shareholders. Drawing on Lynn Stout’s influential work on c...
Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s world, it is almost impossible to go through the day without interacting with a bank—whether through a salary payment, a debit card, a ...
Jeremy Sosabowski: Community Leader and Entrepreneur
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jeremy Sosabowski, CEO and co‑founder of AlgoDynamix, reveals how his company is reinventing market forecasting through behavioral ...
Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine (Bristol UP, 2025) by Dr. Elliot Dolan-Evans examines the impact of ...
Paolo Zannoni, "Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World" (Columbia Business School, 2024)
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Money and Promises: Seven Deals That Changed the World, the distinguished banker, executive, and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the c...
Donald Chew, "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (Columbia Business School Publish...
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy" (Custom House, 2022)
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, New York Times' journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative Davos Men-memb...
Gregory T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "China and the Global Economic Order" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
China and the Global Economic Order (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines China's evolving relations with the Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs...
Robert Yee, "The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In The City's Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914-1939, Robert Yee examines how the City of London maint...
Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
24 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Con...
Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale UP, 2023), distinguished economic historian Harold James offers a fresh perspe...
David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX...
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis...
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,...
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,...
Maddalena Alvi, "The European Art Market and the First World War: Art, Capital, and the Decline of the Collecting Class, 1910–1925" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The outbreak of the First World War shattered the established European art market. Amidst fighting, looting, confiscations, expropriation fears and po...
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U California Press, 2022)
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (U California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, a former hedge fund worker takes an ethno...
Mike Bird, "The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset" (Penguin, 2025)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Land Trap (Portfolio / Penguin), Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influe...
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism (Stanford UP, 2023), the authors Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramani...
Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company" (HBR Press, 2017)
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open ...
Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If I had been enslaved for a year or two, I might not be able to believe in humanity any more.” “I am a victim of modern slavery.” These chi...
Richard H. Thaler and Alex Imas, "The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Imas is the Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Professor of Behavioral Science, Economics and Applied AI and a Vasilou Faculty Scholar at the Universi...
Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley wants to disrupt finance, and it might just succeed. In FinTech Dystopia, professor Hilary Allen offers an accessible, irreverent, and...
How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent book...
Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peac...
Stuart Hart, "Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future" (Stanford Business Books, 2024)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future (Stanford Business Books, 2024) Hart argues that the current Milt...
Christopher F. Jones, "The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dangerous ideas. I...
Joe Wiggins, "The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds" (Harriman House, 2022)
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investing in funds is not straightforward. We are faced with a countless range of options and constantly distracted by meaningless noise and turbulent...
Ethan A. Everett, "The Investment Philosophers: Financial Lessons from the Great Thinkers" (Columbia Business School, 2025)
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Warren Buffett and Friedrich Nietzsche have in common? Why does Baruch Spinoza’s understanding of irrational emotions help explain financial...
Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blogger, teac...
Michael Glass, "Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities In the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymou...
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to ...
Calvin Schermerhorn, "The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made" (Yale UP, 2025)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. J Calvin Schermerhorn is a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Hi...
Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you name? You would be forgiven for thinking that, until ve...
Susan Erikson, "Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance" (MIT Press, 2025)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance (MIT Press, 2025) by Dr. Susan Erikson presents a critical and sobering look at how internat...
Dan Davies, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode of Liminal Library, I interviewed Dan Davies about The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How t...
Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to supervise a bank? And why does it matter who holds that power? In this episode, Sean H. Vanatta joins us to explore the hidden ma...
Angela C. Tozer, "The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73" (U of British Columbia Press, 2025)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve got to speculate to accumulate. We apply that notion to individuals in pursuit of wealth, but what about countries? The Debt of a Nation: La...
Bench Ansfield, "Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City" (Norton, 2025)
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series a...
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South. Shennette Garrett-Scott's n...
Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Mary Bridges, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International...
Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time. B...
Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and W...
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood ...
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Central bank cooperation during global financial crises has been anything but consistent. While some crises are arrested with extensive cooperation, o...
Carl Rhodes, "Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire" (Policy Press, 2025)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Billionaires are an ultra-elite social class whose numbers are growing alongside their obscene wealth while others struggle, suffer or even die. They...
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press, 2025) by Dr. Brent Z. Kaup & Dr. Kelly F. Austi...
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle? Can the international economic and legal system survive t...
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Today...
Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. ...
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro (Princeton UP, 2025) John Cochrane Luis Garicano Klaus Masuch PRINCETON UNIVER...
Hali Lee, "The Big We" (Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025)
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hali Lee's The Big We (Zando, 2025) offers a compelling counterpoint to traditional billionaire-driven philanthropy (which she dubs "Big Phil"). In...
Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones are joined by crypto journalist Matt Binder and longtime observer of U.S. politics and policy Edward Luce...
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I interviewed Charles Hecker about Zero Sum. The Arc of International Business in Russia (Oxford UP, 2025). Hecker, a journalist and busine...
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Chinese Communist Party’s complex and contradictory embrace of capitalism has played a pivotal role in shaping China’s economic reforms since ...
Júlia Király, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years. None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the de...
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any one institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest rates ar...
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interest...
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most distinctive aspects of global capitalism in the last half century or so has been the increased role of the financial sector in the glo...
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from?...
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The secret insights of economics, translated for the rest of us. Should I buy or rent? Do I ask for a promotion? Should I tell people I’m pregnant? ...
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Kay's The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong (Yale UP, 2025) is an accessible and e...
Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with retired professor, consultant, Discovery Institute fellow, and a winner of the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science...
The Library of Mistakes: A Conversation with Russell Napier
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Library of Mistakes is a library located in Edinburgh, Scotland dedicated to financial and economic history. Russell Napier, the founder and kee...
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right ...
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China's household debt has exploded from 11% of GDP in 2006 to over 62% today—a profound transformation in a traditionally savings-focused society. ...
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Kaika & Dr. Luca Ruggiero reveals...
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over s...
Paul Podolsky, "The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to Live with Uncertainty and Learn to Think for Yourself" (Harriman House, 2024)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are all stuck in a money cage. Money isn’t the most important thing, but it is a thing and you can’t get away from it. Birth costs money and de...
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appet...
Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this engaging interview, young scholar Dr, Joel Z. Garrod explains his book's main argument, with a personal touch. In Royal Histories: The Trans...
Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks. And yet regulatory issues varie...
Richard Vague, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about debt and its impact on our economy, we almost always mean “government debt.” However, this is only a small part of the picture:...
Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas (Oxford UP, 2023) is an account of the economic drivers and outco...
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance (Springer, 2020) describes how international development works, its shortco...
Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse (Pegasus Books, 2024) is a great business history book. It meticulously chronicles the s...
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin A...
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using s...
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, th...
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many--a safety valve designed to pro...
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, an...
Ken Wilcox, "The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice" (John Wiley & Sons, 2024)
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The China Business Conundrum: Ensure That "Win-Win" Doesn't Mean Western Companies Lose Twice (Wiley, 2024) describes former CEO of Silicon Valley Ba...
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the final episode of Cited’s most recent season, Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise, a season that tells stories of the political and sch...
Nick Bernards, "Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2024)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny. ...
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi...
Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic fail...
Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our co...
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly ...
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of fina...
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that t...
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps m...
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is us...