Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea (Basic Books, 2022) shows how t...
8 Aug 20241h 27min
Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions everywhere from Seattle to Seoul. While its interest ...
7 Aug 202446min
Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions everywhere from Seattle to Seoul. While its interest ...
6 Aug 20241h 2min
Katherine Hempstead, "Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been debates and conflicts over the proper roles of federal and state governments, business, and the respon...
5 Aug 202442min
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit union...
31 Jul 20241h 10min
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work (P...
29 Jul 20241h 8min
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capital...
21 Jul 20241h 10min
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first tim...
20 Jul 202453min
