Rachel E Brulé, "Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Property and Power seeks to explore this ...
23 Feb 20221h 10min
David Boarder Giles, "A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities" (Duke UP, 2021)
In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Duke UP, 2021), David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures wa...
22 Feb 20221h 11min
Mark Devenney, "Towards an Improper Politics" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institutions that divide up the land and allocate rights o...
21 Feb 20221h 28min
Shameen Prashantham, "Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups" (Wiley, 2021)
Today I talked to Shameen Prashantham about his book Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups (Wiley, 2021). In a nutshell, the distrust that must ...
17 Feb 202230min
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as rand...
16 Feb 202252min
William D. Ferguson, "The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development" (Stanford UP, 2020)
The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford UP, 2020) examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political devel...
15 Feb 202246min
Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville, "Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters" (Polity Press, 2022)
I spoke with Eric Protzer (Harvard University) and Paul Summerville (University of Victoria) about their great new book: Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters, pu...
14 Feb 202251min
Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Despite the virtually unanimous agreement about his importance, describing Hirschman’s legacy and influence on others is not an easy task— arguably because he was indeed in a league of his own. His se...
9 Feb 20221h 33min
