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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 43 days 23 hours 53 minutes
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...
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...
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....
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...
episode 828: Michael Stamm, "Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Stamm begins with the simple but thought-provoking premise that, not too long ago, newspapers were almost exclusively physical objects made out of paper...
episode 69: Barry C. Lynn, "Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People” (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy...
episode 28: JC de Swaan, "Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
de Swaan, argues that it is possible to work in finance and not fall prey to the worst ethical ills of a profit maximizing industry...
episode 23: Rory Sutherland, "Alchemy: the Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life" (William Morrow, 2019)
What are the limitations of relying on logic as an upfront filter in pursuing ideas?