Emma Griffin, "Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy" (Yale UP, 2020)
Emma Griffin's Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy (Yale UP, 2020) offers a refreshingly different take on the age of national prosperity in Britain from the 19th to early 20th ...
25 Jan 20211h 3min
R. A. Woldoff and R. C. Litchfield, "Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, however, some...
21 Jan 20211h 43min
Hilton L. Root, "Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all str...
18 Jan 20211h 9min
C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Development in Africa: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
The Idea of Development in Africa: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020) challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and 'probl...
13 Jan 20211h 7min
Virginia Torrie, "Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (University of Toronto Press, 2020) explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrange...
11 Jan 202141min
Weijian Shan, "Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea's Most Iconic Bank" (John Wiley, 2020)
Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank (Wiley, 2020) by Weijian Shan’s, is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever: the acquisi...
8 Jan 202141min
Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe: Background, Impact, and Policy" (Palgrave, 2019)
In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyperinflation became an unlikely publishing hit more than three decades after its release. Y...
4 Jan 202148min
Dirk Ehnts, "Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics" (Routledge, 2016)
With the coronavirus pandemic, Modern Monetary Theory met its moment. A sudden and massive loss of output globally was met with an unprecedented response by governments and central banks and at least ...
31 Des 202041min
