Elisabeth Köll, "Railroads and the Transformation of China" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Railroads and the Transformation of China (Harvard University Press, 2019) looks at the development of railroads in China from the late 19th century to the post-Mao reform period. Treating railroads a...
28 Okt 20191h 5min
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude that developing expertise requires -- do not necess...
24 Okt 201929min
Binyamin Appelbaum, "The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society" (Little Brown, 2019)
Think economics is the "dismal science" with abstract formulas that have no impact on life as it is actually lived? Think again. In The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fractur...
22 Okt 201940min
Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work?" (Sage, 2019)
What is the future of work? In What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Future of Work? (Sage, 2019), Melanie Simms, a Professor of Work and Employment at the University of Glasgow offers an ov...
18 Okt 201932min
I. Negru and W. Dolfsma, "The Ethical Formation of Economists" (Routledge, 2019)
I spoke with Ioana Negru about the book that she recently edited with Wilfred Dolfsma. We were joined in the conversation by our colleague Rodrigo Zeidan to discuss the timely issues covered by The Et...
8 Okt 201932min
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
“Free enterprise” is an everyday phrase that connotes an American common sense. It appears everywhere from political speeches to pop culture. And it is so central to the idea of the United States that...
13 Sep 201957min
James C. W. Ahiakpor, "Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keynes" (Routledge, 2019)
I spoke with James C. W. Ahiakpor, he is Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, at California State University, East Bay, USA. We discussed his new book Macroeconomics without the Errors of Keyn...
13 Sep 201945min
Edward Cartwright, "Behavioral Economics" (Routledge, 2018)
We spoke with Edward Cartwright about his textbook ‘Behavioral Economics’ structured into four parts and eleven chapters. This is now the third edition published by Routledge and it is a leading advan...
29 Aug 201935min
