David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn, "Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad" (Fernwood, 2021)
Many Canadians think of their country as a paragon of liberal democratic values at home, and a moderating force on the world stage—not so, argues the compelling new edited collection from Fernwood Pub...
28 Sep 20221h 36min
Tripp Mickle, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul" (William Morrow, 2022))
Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his "spiritual partner at Apple." The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs's spirit, the man who des...
28 Sep 202239min
Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
Enjoyment appears as purely private matter, but this is by far not the case. Ever since Aristotle the philosophical social critique is tormented by the question, whether the libidinal tendencies of hu...
27 Sep 20221h 15min
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Ass...
26 Sep 202242min
NBN Classic: John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know" (Routledge, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. I met with John Komlos, an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and ...
25 Sep 202235min
NBN Classic: Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism" (Routledge, 2017)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. Today I spoke with Flavia di Mario, a young scholar of political economy and ind...
25 Sep 202240min
NBN Classic: Peter J. Boettke, "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. Today I spoke with professor Peter J. Boettke the author of a great new book on ...
24 Sep 202249min
NBN Classic: Adem Yavuz Elveren, "The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective" (Routledge, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. I spoke with Dr Adem Yavuz Elveren about his book on the economics of military s...
24 Sep 202239min
