New Books in Finance
Episodes
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowl...
Tobias F. Rötheli, "The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation expectations – their formation, predictive accuracy, and influence on business price-setting and household consumption – remain one of t...
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two...
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, t...
Carlo D'Ippoliti, "Democratizing the Economics Debate: Pluralism and Research Evaluation" (Routledge, 2020)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, Professor of Economics at the Department of statistical sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. We talked about ...
70 Recall This Buck 5: "Studying Up" with Daniel Souleles (EF, JP)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit,...
Margaret Jacobs, “Enlightened Entrepreneurialism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Enlightened Entrepreneurialism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of Histo...
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back" (New Press, 2021)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods--free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others...
69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), Joh...
Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces; the high-skilled elite versu...
Nika Kabiri, "Money off the Table: Decision Science and the Secret to Smarter Investing" (Houndstooth Press, 2020)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Nika Kabiri about her new book Money off the Table: Decision Science and the Secret to Smarter Investing (Houndstooth Press, 2020)...
Michele Wucker, "You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Michele Wucker about her new book You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World (Pegasus Books,...
Scott Sumner, "The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before. Just as Milton Friedman ...
Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Data is now central to the economy, government, and health systems—so why are data and the AI systems that interpret the data in the hands of so few...
Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to rethink how we create and allocate money In Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose (Fast Compan...
The Economics of Higher Education
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jeffrey C. Hooke, "The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments" (Columbia Business School, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathi...
Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neoclassical economic theory shows that under the right conditions, prices alone can guide markets to efficient outcomes. But what if it it’s hard t...
Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth exp...
Emily Erikson, "Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought" (Columbia UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Co...
Gregory Werden, "The Foundations of Antitrust: Events, Ideas, and Doctrines" (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking....
Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley, "Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters" (Routledge, 2021)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized ...
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
01 Sep 2021
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...
Benjamin Ho, "Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us" (Columbia UP, 2021)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you trust corporations? Do you trust politicians? Do you trust the science? Does anyone trust anyone anymore? In Why Trust Matters: An Economist's...
Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiq...
Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster, "In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest" (Princeton UP, 2021)
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (Princeton UP, 20...
Massimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank publis...
Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopi...
Mallory E. SoRelle, "Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Americans rely on credit to provide for their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and other daily necessities and the 2008 financial crisis demon...
Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambr...
Zachary Karabell, "Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power" (Penguin, 2021)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1800 a Belfast linen merchant named Alexander Brown emigrated with his wife and eldest son to Baltimore. Today his family’s name lives on in the ...
Tom Eisenmann, "Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success" (Currency, 2021)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do many startups fail? Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School realised that even he didn’t really know the answ...
Kristy Ironside, "A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In spite of Karl Marx's proclamation that money would become obsolete under Communism, the ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. In fact, altho...
Joanne Meyerowitz, "A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (Princeton UP, 2021)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton UP, 2021) provides a fresh account of US involveme...
William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming? Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William N...
Bobby C. Lee, "The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You" (McGraw-Hill Education, 2021)
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Bobby Lee about his book 'The promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You' (McGraw-Hill, 2021). Bobby Lee is a...
Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The inside story of the world's most famous board game-a buried piece of American history with an epic scandal that continues today. The Monopolists: ...
Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Prof. Tim Jackson about his latest book: Post Growth, Life after Capitalism, published by Polity Books in 2021. The book starts with a r...
Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending fr...
C. G. Faricy and C. Ellis, "The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021), political scientists Christopher Ellis...
Michael Blakey: Entrepreneur, Angel and Seed Investor
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Michael Blakey describes how as a strongly dyslexic child his relationship with schooling and formal education was very challenging....
Rachel Z. Friedman, "Probable Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Risk" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The emergence of individual and commercial insurance in Early Modern Europe required an understanding of probability. In Probable Justice: Rethinki...
Karen Petrou, "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America" (Wiley, 2021)
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping strug...
Pedro Gustavo Teixeira, "The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market" (Hart, 2020)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranation...
Mungo Keulemans: CEO and Entrepreneur
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mungo Keulemans talks about growing up in South Africa, working in the family business, his army experiences, his move to Europe, Japan and back to Eu...
Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer, "The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders" (Harvard Business Press, 2021)
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Adam Bryant about his new book (co-authored with Kevin Sharer), The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders ...
Richard Pomfret, "The Road to Monetary Union" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements se...
Florian Faes: Entrepreneur and Managing Director
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Florian Feas describes his route into setting up Slator: to solve problems he became aware of, as a result of working in the translati...
W. Quinn and J. D. Turner, "Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ashutosh Garg: Entrepreneur, Author and Podcaster
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Ashutosh about his upbringing and journey into corporate life, and the lessons that taught him. His route into entrepreneur...
Chuck Collins, "The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions" (Polity, 2021)
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These ‘ag...
Veronique Ozkaya: Chief Executive Officer at Argos Multilingual
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Veronique Ozkaya shares her teenage experience working in the family business, why she wanted to get away from her hometown, her brief career as a dip...
Paul Vallely, "Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg" (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020)
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this magnum opus, Paul Vallely guides the reader on a journey through the history and meaning of giving in religion and society. Vivid with anecdot...
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
04 Mar 2021
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 ...
Introduction to the Entrepreneurship and Leadership Podcast
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kimon and Richard explain why they are launching the NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast, the topics they are going to delve ...
L. Vinsel and A. L. Russell, "The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most" (Currency, 2020)
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a...
S. Carlsson and J. Leijonhufvud, "The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance" (Diversion Books, 2021)
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with pi...
M. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regul...
N. Darshan-Leitner and S. M. Katz, "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters" (Hachette, 2017)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specif...
Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy, "Neoliberalism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 2021)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ...
Reducing Poverty through Digital Finance Schemes in Myanmar: A Discussion with Dr Russell Toth
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Financial inclusion has been one of the most prominent issues on the international development agenda in recent years, as access to payments, remittan...
Joshua Mendelsohn, "The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’...
Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian n...
C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Development in Africa: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Idea of Development in Africa: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020) challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by...
Virginia Torrie, "Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (University of Toronto Press, 2020) explodes conventional wisdom ...
Weijian Shan, "Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank" (John Wiley, 2020)
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank (Wiley, 2020) by Weijian Shan’s, is a riveting tale of ...
Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe: Background, Impact, and Policy" (Palgrave, 2019)
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyperinflation became an unlikely publish...
Dirk Ehnts, "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (Routledge, 2016)
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the coronavirus pandemic, Modern Monetary Theory met its moment. A sudden and massive loss of output globally was met with an unprecedented respo...
Bann Seng Tan, "International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins" (Routledge, 2020)
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In International Aid and Democracy Promotion: Liberalization at the Margins (Routledge, 2020), Political Scientist Bann Seng Tan investigates the l...
Paul Donovan, "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Routledge, 2020)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Donovan's Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Routledge, 2020) is a great example of what Robert Shiller h...
Hans-Werner Sinn, "The Economics of Target Balances" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every day, TARGET - Europe's cross-border payments system - processes transactions worth €2.5 trillion. Under its decentralised model, TARGET genera...
Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as ...
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polity, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faste...
K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the histo...
Ewald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020)
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest ba...
J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historians often portray the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) as a conservative force in debates over free enterprise, battles against unio...
JC de Swaan, "Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JC de Swaan does not shy from a challenge. In his new book, Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry (Cambridge Un...
Margaret Heffernan, "Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke with Dr Margaret Heffernan about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map and Navigate the Future Together (Simon and Schuster, 2020). Mar...
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and m...
Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random House, 2020)
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern finance isn't really all that modern. Three centuries ago, Great Britain's need for money to fight its wars, the appearance of joint stock comp...
Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics" (Princeton UP, 2017)
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The work of Alfred Charles Pigou may not be as well known to people today as that of his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, but as Ian Kumekawa details...
Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Disruption Books, 2020)
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class ...
Christopher Marquis, "Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Prof. Christopher Marquis, Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University...
R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a consensus on the best response to global warming? Not even close. Left and right both bring their own tools, math, and, most notably, agend...
Joshua Greenberg, "Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple. During the course of the 20th century, most of us have gotten used...
J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financial Regulation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with ...
David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
04 Sep 2020
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...
Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and M...
Olli Rehn, "Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspe...
Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (Basic Books, 2020)
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Should climate change policy be subject to a cost-benefit analysis leading to a variety of policy choices? Or is it so critical that the only "proper"...
Paul De Grauwe, "Economics of Monetary Union" (Oxford UP, 2020)
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020) has become a s...
Costas Lapavitsas, "The Left Case Against the EU" (Polity, 2018)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it ...
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 6: Negative Interest
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: Economics. In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Wash...
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
13 Jul 2020
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...
Tim Koller, "Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies" (Wiley, 2020)
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you value something? It seems simple enough. Since the beginning of commerce thousands of years ago, people have been asserting the value of en...
Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes" (Random House, 2020)
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art an...
E. Lonergan and M. Blyth, "Angrynomics" (Agenda/Columbia UP, 2020)
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing? Today I talked to Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth about their new book A...
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Bel...
Phil Harvey, "Welfare For The Rich" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s ultra-polarized and highly partisan political environment, Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets―A...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...