New Books in Economics

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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
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 8, 2025 – 52:10
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Mar 8, 2025 – 01:02:54
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Mar 7, 2025 – 17:24
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 6, 2025 – 01:03:07
S4E28 Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
Mar 5, 2025 – 43:33
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Mar 4, 2025 – 56:34
Erik Baker, "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Mar 2, 2025 – 58:12
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Feb 27, 2025 – 01:02:39
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
Feb 27, 2025 – 38:40
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024)
Feb 18, 2025 – 01:22:24
Paul Podolsky, "The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to Live with Uncertainty and Learn to Think for Yourself" (Harriman House, 2024)
Feb 14, 2025 – 47:55
Agricultural and Resource Economics in Vietnam
Feb 13, 2025 – 25:10
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Feb 12, 2025 – 55:28
Michael Albertus, "Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies" (Basic Books, 2025)
Feb 11, 2025 – 40:25
Yuca Meubrink, "Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 7, 2025 – 54:43
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Feb 7, 2025 – 01:11:26
Joel Z. Garrod, "Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Feb 1, 2025 – 57:34
Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
Feb 1, 2025 – 33:30
Kim Pernell, "Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 31, 2025 – 01:02:09
Richard Vague, "The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Jan 31, 2025 – 39:38
Lennard J. Davis, "Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 29, 2025 – 01:12:08
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 28, 2025 – 56:44
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
Jan 25, 2025 – 47:51
Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2025 – 01:08:06
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
Jan 24, 2025 – 24:23
Duncan Mavin, "Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Jan 19, 2025 – 39:25
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jan 5, 2025 – 01:27:06
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 5, 2025 – 45:05

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