Alexander Etkind, "Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources" (Polity Press, 2021)
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources – how we acquire them, use them, ...
10 Jan 20221h 19min
Nathalie Nahai, "Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience" (Kogan Page, 2022)
Today I talked to Nathalie Nahai new book Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience (Kogan Page, 2022) David Brooks once joked that in the end the “revolution” promised us by the Baby...
30 Dec 202132min
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade American universities into sites for producing knowledge about the world as a collection of distinct n...
29 Dec 20211h 34min
Tobias F. Rötheli, "The Behavioral Economics of Inflation Expectations: Macroeconomics Meets Psychology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Inflation expectations – their formation, predictive accuracy, and influence on business price-setting and household consumption – remain one of the great macroeconomic puzzles and challenges to polic...
28 Dec 202148min
Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Have you ever stopped to think about your local grocery cooperative and what makes it different than, say Safeway or Giant or Whole Foods? That is, if you have a grocery cooperative in your neighborho...
28 Dec 202154min
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of ...
27 Dec 202154min
Smitha Radhakrishnan, "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" (Duke UP, 2022)
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of ...
27 Dec 202154min
Yeling Tan, "Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Once you understand that markets require public institutions of governance and regulation in order to function well, and further, you accept that nations may have different preferences over the shape ...
21 Dec 20211h 22min
