New Books in Economics

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 November 19, 2020  34m
 
 

episode 50: Joshua Gans, "The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19" (MIT Press, 2020)


Gans' central thesis is that "at their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”.


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 November 17, 2020  38m
 
 

episode 51: Graciela Chichilnisky, "Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy" (World Scientific, 2020)


Chichilnisky lays out the history of how we came to be in the emergency we are in now, what we have tried before, and how we can get out....


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 November 17, 2020  52m
 
 

episode 116: Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy" (Stanford UP, 2020)


Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft....


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 November 10, 2020  1h5m
 
 

episode 49: Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polity, 2020)


Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....


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 November 9, 2020  33m
 
 

episode 92: K. Yazdani and D. M. Menon, "Capitalisms: Towards a Global History" (Oxford UP, 2020)


"Capitalisms" aims to decenter work on the history of capitalism by looking at the longue durée from the tenth century; at regions as diverse as Song China, South and South East Asia, Latin America and the Ottoman and Safavid Empires; and exploring the plurality of developments over this extended time and space...


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 November 6, 2020  1h27m
 
 

episode 27: Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)


Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...


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 November 5, 2020  34m
 
 

episode 48: Ewald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020)


In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy in US history - so triggering a global financial crisis and recession...


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 November 5, 2020  46m
 
 

episode 265: Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)


Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....


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 November 4, 2020  50m
 
 

episode 478: J. A. Delton, "The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism" (Princeton UP, 2020)


Delton focuses on the conservative policy goals of the organization but also its surprisingly progressive tactics...


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 November 2, 2020  57m