NB Economics 📚

New Books in #Economics is an author-interview #podcast channel in the @NewBooksNetwork. Hosted by @Bernardi_UK. 🎧 on Apple Podcasts:

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Pitch us at the link below and the producers at the
@NewBooksNetwork will try to match you up with an NBN #podcast host in your research field!

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Social networks existed & shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. Listen in as Matthew O. Jackson explains how network structures create poverty traps, exacerbate financial crises & contribute to political polarization ⤵️

https://t.co/PE6fDf48v4

[Polity @politybooks]

Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, and social inequality. @ProfTimJackson’s book imagines a world beyond capitalism.

On @NewBooksEcon he talks about the book and how it came to be with @Bernardi_UK

https://t.co/YiIDwjDTU7

[Andrea Bernardi @Bernardi_UK]

Money Games, by Weijian Shan. Soon on @NewBooksEcon

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"At their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus."

Tune in as @joshgans joins @timjgwynnjones to fill us in on THE PANDEMIC INFORMATION GAP: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (@mitpress) ↙️

https://t.co/jDtoMRzthi

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Inheritance is no longer a transmission of property but a “strategically timed transfer of funds...leveraged in the speculative logic of the asset economy." 🎙️@AdkinsProf and @konings_martijn discuss THE ASSET ECONOMY (@politybooks) with @timjgwynnjones👇

https://t.co/6NuJ8tKvLr

[NB Intellectual History 📚 @NewBooksIntHist]

CAPITALISMS (@OUPHistory) contends with clichés of Western exceptionalism to make a set of historical arguments about non-Western and interconnected economic developments across the 🌍, prior to the era of colonialism. The editors join @TimeTravelAllie 👇

https://t.co/m2juvp506L

[NB Economics 📚 @NewBooksEcon]

MONEY & LIFE charts the political & literary development of a young Social Democrat economist in postwar Vienna, his education in Austria & the US, and his experience in banking in the pre-Lehman stage of the crisis. Ewald Nowatny joins @timjgwynnjones👇

https://t.co/5cUYt27GSW

[NB Science, Technology & Society 📚 @NewBooksSTS]

TEA WAR (@yalepress) offers a fascinating new history of a ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation. @andybliu discusses the book with @lrieppel👇

https://t.co/pgZaiq8mCu

[NB Political Science @NewBooksPoliSci]

Focusing on the National Association of Manufacturers and covering 125 years of massive changes in US economic policy, THE INDUSTRIALISTS (@PrincetonUPress) examines manufacturing’s role in the development of capitalism. 🎙️@delton85 joins @SusanLiebell👇

https://t.co/V6Qzk1mJ4r

[NB Finance @NewBooksFinance]

Former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur @geneludwig joins @HistoryInvestor to debrief of us on THE VANISHING AMERICAN DREAM (@DisruptionBooks), the product of a 2019 @YaleLawSch conference discussing specific policy proposals.👂👇

https://t.co/8KSS1q4bqk

[NB National Security 📚 @NewBooksNatSec]

Americans are only now awakening to the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—that monopolists control almost every corner of the U.S. economy.

🎙️Barry C. Lynn discusses LIBERTY FROM ALL MASTERS (@StMartinsPress) with @arya_hariharan 👇

https://t.co/NILhJIVoVO

[NB Biography 📚 @NewBooksBiog]

A.C. Pigou may not be as well known today as his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, but as Ian Kumekawa shows in THE FIRST SERIOUS OPTIMIST: A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics (@PrincetonUPress), he advanced ideas that remain very relevant.👂👇

https://t.co/dVgfU3Tz6O

[NB Finance @NewBooksFinance]

Modern finance isn’t really all that modern.

In 1720, the South Sea stock rose and fell quickly, but the financing structures remained and last to this day. Thomas Levenson's MONEY for NOTHING (@randomhouse) tells the tale. He joins @HistoryInvestor👇

https://t.co/5qONvawcqt

[NB Finance @NewBooksFinance]

JC de Swaan does not shy from a challenge. In a SEEKING VIRTUE in FINANCE (@CUPAcademic), de Swaan argues that it is possible to work in finance and not fall prey to the ethical ills of a profit maximizing industry. 🎙️de Swaan joins @HistoryInvestor👇

https://t.co/G9gMG1PkWg

[NB East Asian Studies 📚 @NewBooksEAsia]

TRADE WARS ARE CLASS WARS (@yalepress) co-author @michaelxpettis joins @nickrigordon. Tune in as they discuss the cause of trade imbalances, the situations where they harm national economies, and what kinds of policies might resolve them on the podcast ⤵️

https://t.co/vNKPHarJEW

[NB Economics 📚 @NewBooksEcon]

Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to friendships, UNCHARTED (@SimonBooks) asks us to resist the false promises of technology and efficiency and to create the futures we actually.

🎙️@M_Heffernan joins @Bernardi_UK ⤵️

https://t.co/vJhkr4zw7t

[NB Economics 📚 @NewBooksEcon]

Covering foreign direct investment, foreign aid, institutions and good governance, data collection, and heterodox approaches, DEVELOPMENTAL ECONOMICS (@Routledge_Econ)tackles fundamental questions of development and underdevelopment. Learn all about it ↙️

https://t.co/ht6ShKrCER

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BETTER BUSINESS (@yalepress) explores the rapid growth of companies choosing to certify as B Corps both in the U.S. and internationally and explains why the future of B Corporations is vital for us all. Learn more as @CMarquisCornell joins @Bernardi_UK ↙️

https://t.co/YsBn2PmAYv

[Lit Hub Radio @lithubradio]

What is money? No, really, what is money? It turns out the answer is not so simple. On #BookoftheDay with @NewBooksNetwork, Joshua Greenberg discusses his new book, Bank Notes and Shinplasters (@PennPress). https://t.co/ur3jQ2FVoO