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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 43 days 3 hours 57 minutes
episode 30: Amy Bucher, "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change" (Rosenfeld Media, 2020)
Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavioral change...
episode 12: Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade" (Duke UP, 2020)
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....
episode 7: Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...
episode 29: Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, "What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve" (HBR Press, 2020)
Are you solving the wrong problem?
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”.
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....
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....
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”....
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...
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...