Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is no...
8 Sep 20211h
Gregory Werden, "The Foundations of Antitrust: Events, Ideas, and Doctrines" (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
Few revolutions in economics have been as under-covered in general literature as the emergence and development of competition theory and policymaking. Political threats to break up the tech giants or ...
7 Sep 20211h 9min
Lindsay Naylor, "Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Fair trade certified coffee is now commonly found on the supermarket shelves of the Global North, but the connections between the consumer and producer of fair trade coffee are far from simple. Lindsa...
6 Sep 202147min
Hans Gersbach, "Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules" (Springer, 2018)
For three decades, Hans Gersbach has been using economic analysis and tools to explain and improve political behaviour. His academic career began just as history was supposed to be ending with the vic...
3 Sep 202141min
Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley, "Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters" (Routledge, 2021)
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now...
3 Sep 202139min
Ann Latham, "The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Today I talked to Ann Latham about her new book The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment (Bloomsbury, 2021). On the factory floor, the pr...
2 Sep 202131min
Austin Dean, "China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937" (Cornell UP, 2020)
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency;...
1 Sep 20211h 22min
Tanya Jakimow, "Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Tanya Jakimow's book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through th...
1 Sep 202139min
