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Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to friendships, UNCHARTED (Simon & Schuster) asks us to resist the false promises of technology and efficiency and to create the futures we actually. 🎙️Margaret Heffernan joins Andrea Bernardi ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/margaret-heffe…

TRADE WARS ARE CLASS WARS (Yale University Press) co-author Michael Pettis joins Nicholas Gordon. 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 ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/m-pettis-and-m…

JC de Swaan does not shy from a challenge. In a SEEKING VIRTUE in FINANCE (Cambridge University Press - Academic), 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 Daniel Peris👇 newbooksnetwork.com/jc-de-swaan-se…

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 (Random House Group) tells the tale. He joins Daniel Peris👇 newbooksnetwork.com/thomas-levenso…

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 (Princeton University Press), he advanced ideas that remain very relevant.👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ian-kumekawa-t…

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 (St. Martin's Press) with Arya Hariharan 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/barry-c-lynn-l…

Former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur Gene Ludwig joins Daniel Peris to debrief of us on THE VANISHING AMERICAN DREAM (@DisruptionBooks), the product of a 2019 Yale Law School conference discussing specific policy proposals.👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/gene-ludwig-th…

Focusing on the National Association of Manufacturers and covering 125 years of massive changes in US economic policy, THE INDUSTRIALISTS (Princeton University Press) examines manufacturing’s role in the development of capitalism. 🎙️Jennifer Delton joins @SusanLiebell👇 newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-delto…

Just out, my New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) interview with Ewald Nowotny - ex-OeNB, ex-European Central Bank now ÖGfE - about his memoir 'Geld und Leben' (Braumüller). Need for ECB crisis accommodation "quite obvious" now, he says, so "no major differences among the members of the Governing Council" ...

TEA WAR (Yale University Press) 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. liusanity 囧 discusses the book with @lrieppel👇 newbooksnetwork.com/andrew-liu-tea…

Just out, my New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) interview with Prof Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings about 'The Asset Economy' (Polity). "Even small transfers of wealth intergenerationally make a huge difference in terms of wealth accumulation over time": podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new…

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 Tim Gwynn Jones👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ewald-nowatny-…

CAPITALISMS (OUP History) 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 Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/k-yazdani-and-…

Inheritance is no longer a transmission of property but a “strategically timed transfer of funds...leveraged in the speculative logic of the asset economy." 🎙️Prof Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings discuss THE ASSET ECONOMY (Polity) with Tim Gwynn Jones👇 newbooksnetwork.com/lisa-adkins-et…

Just out, my New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) interview with Joshua Gans of Rotman School about 'The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19' (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social). "The broader way to think about any pandemic is as an information problem": newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/…

"At their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus." Tune in as Joshua Gans joins Tim Gwynn Jones to fill us in on THE PANDEMIC INFORMATION GAP: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-pandemic-i…

Money Games, by Weijian Shan. Soon on NB Economics 📚

Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, and social inequality. Tim Jackson’s book imagines a world beyond capitalism. On NB Economics 📚 he talks about the book and how it came to be with Andrea Bernardi newbooksnetwork.com/post-growth

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 ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-human-netw…