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Finance
An interview with scholars of finance about their new books.
May 13, 2024
The Price of Humanity
Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy fro…
May 5, 2024
Promise and Peril of Credit
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 …
April 28, 2024
Disruption
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 that…
April 23, 2024
The Power to Destroy
The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement of the last half century", according to our guest Michael J. Gra…
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 19, 2024
As Gods Among Men
This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include The Financial Times (UK), The Teleg…
April 11, 2024
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor marke…
April 8, 2024
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with historian and standup comedian, Sean Vanatta, lecturer in economic and social history at the University …
March 30, 2024
Work, Retire, Repeat
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.…
March 19, 2024
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Largest…
March 13, 2024
Investing in U.S. Financial History
Most people rely only on their life experience to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape econ…
March 13, 2024
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an ea…
March 6, 2024
Economists at War
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) tells …
February 28, 2024
Busting the Bankers' Club
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…
February 26, 2024
Technofeudalism
In Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Melville House, 2023), Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun. …
February 22, 2024
The Code of Capital
"Most lawyers, most actors, most soldiers and sailors, most athletes, most doctors, and most diplomats feel a certain solidarity in the face of outsid…
February 21, 2024
Innovation for the Masses
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), Ne…
February 18, 2024
Free Enterprise
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it i…
February 17, 2024
1931
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of authoritarianism? Tobias Straum…
February 12, 2024
Fiscal Therapy
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting …