New Books in Economics

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episode 26: Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Disruption Books, 2020)


Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of all in his hometown of York, PA....


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 September 28, 2020  52m
 
 

episode 347: Karl Gerth, "Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)


Gerth details how the state created brands, promoted and advertised particular products, set up department stores, and facilitated the promotion of certain luxury consumer products in the Mao era....


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 September 25, 2020  1h23m
 
 

episode 20: Timothy R. Clark, "The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation" (Berrett-Koehler, 2020)


How does any organization invite the true, full participation of its members?


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 September 24, 2020  40m
 
 

episode 45: Shahrukh Khan, "Development Economics: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2019)


What sets this work apart is both the centrality it places on covering all of the diversity in the field of development economics. From neo-Marxists to neo-liberals and everything in between, the book honors and critiques the value of each approach to understanding development...


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 September 23, 2020  1h8m
 
 

episode 44: Christopher Marquis, "Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism" (Yale UP, 2020)


Marquis tells the story of the rise of a new corporate form—the B Corporation...


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 September 21, 2020  38m
 
 
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 September 21, 2020  51m
 
 

episode 26: Zachary Dorner, "Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long 18th Century" (U Chicago Press, 2020)


Dorner unravels the intertwined history of financial markets, health concerns, and colonial warfare...


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 September 18, 2020  1h0m
 
 

episode 25: R. Pollin and N. Chomsky, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso, 2020)


Pollin and Chomsky's plan attempts to keep the planet from heating up too much while simultaneously redressing the economic wrongs that they blame substantially on unfettered capitalism...


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 September 15, 2020  46m
 
 

episode 39: Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" (Duke UP, 2020)


Riofrancos examines the deeper questions for democratic theory at stake in conflicts over resource extraction...


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 September 14, 2020  2h8m
 
 

episode 796: Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802" (Cambridge UP, 2019)


Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....


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 September 11, 2020  55m