New Books in Finance

Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something ol...

Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the con...

Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power? In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in ...

Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age (Routledge, 2024) investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right ...

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politici...

Mary Bridges, "Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentieth century.  In Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers...

Ian Williams, "Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy (Birlinn, 2024)

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. Ho...

Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of in...

Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial cri...

Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian re...

Malcolm Macleod, "The Practice of Philanthropy: A Guide for Foundation Boards and Staff" (Barlow Publishing, 2024)

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Practice of Philanthropy: A Guide for Foundation Boards and Staff (Barlow Publishing, 2024), author Malcolm Macleod addresses the unique cha...

Manuela Moschella, "Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy" (Cornell UP, 2024)

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investig...

Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume...

Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with-and even to benefit...

Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, na...

Angela Geck, "The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovativ...

Zvi Schreiber, "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and the Mystery of Its Decline" (2021)

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our soc...

Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re...

Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The...

Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

The GiveWell Method

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Caleb Zakarin and Uri Bram dive into the world of effective charitable giving through the lens of GiveWell, an organization known for...

Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions e...

Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been debates and conflicts over the proper roles of feder...

Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Parado...

Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to th...

David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand...

Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History a...

Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it?...

Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012, to stave off the collapse of their currency union, Europe’s leaders sought to end the so-called “doom loop” between the solvency of the...

Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Schiller, who spent a number of years working in both political and major gift fundraising, has a new book detailing some of the fundamental probl...

Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston, "The Political Development of American Debt Relief" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing...

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, "The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market. Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971 (Cambridge Universit...

Rhodri Davies, "What Is Philanthropy For?" (Bristol UP, 2023)

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, philanthropy, the use of private assets for the public good, has come under renewed scrutiny. Do elite philanthropists wield too much...

Qian Wei, "The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China" (Routledge, 2022)

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese philanthropic foundations navigate a uniquely challenging terrain shaped by authoritarian governance. The Governance of Philanthropic Foundat...

Kathleen Day, "Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street" (Yale UP, 2019)

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again. Who should...

Financial Institutions and Enslavement

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, we talk to two authors about the role of financial institutions in enslavement. Sharon Ann Murphy, associate professor of his...

Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Esoteric and frequently disinterested in the public good, financial institutions can be hard to navigate for those seeking to advance social welfare. ...

Carola Binder, "Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A sweeping history of the United States’ economy and politics, in Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy (U Chicago Press, 2024)...

Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monet...

Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the natur...

Rajrishi Singhal, "Slip, Stitch and Stumble: The Untold Story of Financial Reforms in India" (Viking, 2024)

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

India’s stock markets are booming. One calculation from Bloomberg puts India as the world’s fourth-largest equity market, overtaking Hong Kong, ...

Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s book D...

Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthrop...

Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1647, the French author Étienne Cleirac asserted in his book Les us, et coustumes de la mer that the credit instruments known as bills of exchange...

Michael De Groot, "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2024)

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Michael De Groot argues tha...

Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gr...

John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa...

Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include  The Financial Times (UK), The...

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor mark...

Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian and standup comedian, Sean Vanatta, lecturer in economic and social history at the University ...

Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address....

"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Larg...

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an e...

Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most people rely only on their life experience to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape econ...

Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford UP, 2020) tel...

Gerald Epstein, "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us" (U California Press, 2024)

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks an...

Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Melville House, 2023), Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun....

Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Most lawyers, most actors, most soldiers and sailors, most athletes, most doctors, and most diplomats feel a certain solidarity in the face of outsid...

Neil Lee, "Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy" (U California Press, 2024)

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we build a more equal economy? In Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy (U California Press, 2024), ...

Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And ...

Tobias Straumann, "1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2019)

17 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of authoritarianism? Tobias Straum...

William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting ...

Nick Romeo, "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy" (PublicAffairs, 2024)

07 Feb 2024

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...

Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)

03 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US...

Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the h...

Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, government agencies around the world have been forced to consider the role of competition law and policy in addressing various crise...

Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are on the verge of a major paradigm shift for investors in the U.S. stock market. Dividend-focused stock investing has been receding in popularity...

Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental ...

John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trying to follow the key macroeconomic debates that are swirling around DC, CNBC, the WSJ and the NYT? If you are but don't want to go back to graduat...

Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure econo...

Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before becoming a financial analyst and then a portfolio manager in New York, Daniel Peris worked as a tenure-track professor of Soviet history. I s...

Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Vague really really cares about private-sector debt. And he thinks you should too. In A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financia...

James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome? James O'Toole's The Enlightened ...

Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When teaching a public course called “The Age of Debt” this winter break, I had the strange realization that one of the the most successful readin...

Christine Abely, "The Russia Sanctions: The Economic Response to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

February 2024 will mark the tenth anniversary of Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian territory in Crimea and the Donbas and two years since its full-scale...

The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin

16 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With increasing talk of de-dollarization and the Gulf attempts to get more influence in the IMF it’s a good time to talk about the world’s interna...

Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and ...

The Enlightened Donor: How to Give Charity Wisely

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Motivated by compassion and hope, and the shared desire to make the world a better place, the immense amount of charitable giving stands as a testamen...

Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstanti...

Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientist Brendan Doherty has a new book that dives into the ways that presidents have raised money for themselves, their parties, and other...

Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Firms and entrepreneurs were key drivers of the globalisation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thesis investigates commodity...

Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do the histories of currency and monetary policy tell us about societies at large, political structures, and cultures? Ekaterina Pravilova and ...

Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the fut...

Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, ho...

Ian Jones, "Using the Past: Authenticity, Reliability, and the Role of Archives in Barclays PLC's Use of the Past Strategies" (U Liverpool, 2021)

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve ...

Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)

14 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Within our mandate, the [European Central Bank] is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough". With tho...

Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Hartley interviewed Rob Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, at the Economic Club of Miami on December 3, 2022. Topics discussed i...

GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Calabria (Former FHFA Director and Cato Senior Advisor) joins the podcast to discuss his tenure as director of the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance ...

Rachel O'Dwyer, "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform" (Verso, 2023)

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket. Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new ...

IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Milton Friedman student and University of Chicago-trained monetary economist Warren Coats (Johns Hopkins fellow, former IMF economist and central bank...

Luke Messac, "Your Money Or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2023)

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America -- and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the cr...

A Better Way to Buy Books

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...

The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s...

Keren Winterford et al., "Reframing Aid: A Strengths-Based Approach for International Development" (Practical Action, 2023)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The practice of international development continues to change as more is understood about what works. A shift from a deficit or problem-solving approa...

Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Why does the financial sector matter? In How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance (Bristol UP, 2023), Philip Roscoe, ...

Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories (Melville House, 2023), Mike Rothschild delves into the history of the ...

Ryan C. Smith, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of the global financial industry is treated by many economists as a critical component of the rise of neoliberalism. What few address is the ...

Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia. He is the author of four books, the most recent of whic...