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Entrepreneurship and Leadership March 1, 2021

Entrepreneurship and Leadership

A New Podcast from the NBN

Kimon Fountoukidis and Richard Lucas

Hosted by Richard Lucas
In this episode Kimon and Richard explain why they are launching the NBN Entrepreneurship and Leadership podcast, the topics they are going to delve into with their guests and what …

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South Asian Studies February 26, 2021

Rethinking Markets in Modern India

Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction

A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes and S. Schwecke

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmentalization has political consequences: if capitalism operates through arcane, objective, and rational …
Science, Technology, and Society February 24, 2021

The Innovation Delusion

How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most

Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
It’s hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it’s genuinely a new invention or just a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto …
Economics February 18, 2021

The Spotify Play

How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance

Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud

Hosted by Tim Jones
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but …
Asian Review of Books February 18, 2021

The Myth of Chinese Capitalism

The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

Dexter Roberts

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Around the Chinese New Year period, millions of Chinese migrant workers return home from jobs in China’s major cities to their rural villages to visit their families. China’s urban centers …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery February 17, 2021

Heavy Traffic

The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective

Kenneth V. Faunce

Hosted by Lucas Richert
Much of the world's politics revolve around questions about the development of the international market for drugs; the roles merchants, government officials, and drug manufacturers played in shaping this market …
European Studies February 12, 2021

European Banking and Financial Law

Matthias Haentjens and Pierre De Gioia-Carabellese

Hosted by Tim Jones
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in …
Political Science February 11, 2021

The Economic Other

Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky have written an incredibly timely and fascinating study of our understanding of income inequality in the United States, and how this understanding contributes to the …
Latin American Studies February 11, 2021

Revolution in Development

Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy

Christy Thornton

Hosted by Rachel Newman
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) uncovers the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing …
Economics February 8, 2021

Neoliberalism

A Very Short Introduction

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy

Hosted by Tim Jones
George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ‘neoliberalism’ knows exactly how it feels …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel February 8, 2021

Harpoon

Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Covid-19 is the global threat that owns today’s headlines, but the threat of international and domestic terrorism is still very much with us. Specifically, the widespread upheaval, uncertainty and global …
SSEAC Stories February 4, 2021

Reducing Poverty through Digital Finance Schemes in Myanmar

A Discussion with Dr Russell Toth

Russell Toth

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
Financial inclusion has been one of the most prominent issues on the international development agenda in recent years, as access to payments, remittances, credit, savings and insurance services have been …
Sports February 2, 2021

The Cap

How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA

Joshua Mendelsohn

Hosted by Paul Knepper
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’s chances to …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight January 28, 2021

Humanocracy

Creating Organizations As Amazing As the People Inside Them

Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked with Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini about their book Humanocracy: Creating Organizations As Amazing As the People Inside Them (HBR, 2020). This episode attacks the way bureaucracies are “innovation-phobic” and “soul …
Political Science January 28, 2021

Electoral Capitalism

The Party System in New York's Gilded Age

Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Jeff Broxmeyer has written a fascinating and insightful book about the party system in New York during the Gilded Age, but this is really only the foundation of the analysis …
History January 25, 2021

Bread Winner

An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Emma Griffin

Hosted by Joshua Tham
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 …
Sociology January 21, 2021

Digital Nomads

In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy

Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 …
Systems and Cybernetics January 18, 2021

Network Origins of the Global Economy

East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective

Hilton L. Root

Hosted by Tom Scholte
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 stripes find …
African Studies January 13, 2021

The Idea of Development in Africa

A History

Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon

Hosted by Elisa Prosperetti
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 'problems' of development used …
Law January 11, 2021

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law

A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

Virginia Torrie

Hosted by Nick Pozek
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 Arrangement Act and in its …