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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (Cambridge UP, 2025) is the most recent book from Professor William Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This title is the latest in excell... more

The U.S. dollar is the world’s most important currency. Trade is priced in dollars, the world’s central banks keep U.S. dollars in reserve, some places–including my home of Hong Kong, peg their currencies to the dollar. But what explains the U.S. dol... more

For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smith’s views on economics and ethics. While some held that Smith’s capitalism and free markets institutionalized selfishness, greed, inequa... more

How did an economic system that was the result of largely uncoordinated and unplanned individual decisions come to dominate our modern world? This is the core question that my guest, Berkeley economic historian Trevor Jackson, tries to answer in his ... more

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Recent Guests

Paul Blustein
Author of King Dollar, The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Episode: Paul Blustein, "King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency" (Yale UP, 2025)
William I. Robinson
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
Episode: William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Stephen B. Young
Global Executive Director, Co-Roundtable for Moral Capitalism
Episode: Stephen B. Young ed., "Adam Smith and Modern Economics: Reclaiming the Moral High Ground" (de Gruyter, 2026)
Trevor Jackson
Berkeley Economic Historian
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Karen Hao
Journalist and author of Empire of AI
Empire of AI (author)
Episode: Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
Ker Gibbs
Author, The Fragile Dragon: China's Strengths and the Limits to Its Power
Executive in Residence, University of San Francisco
Episode: Ker Gibbs, "The Fragile Dragon: Trade, Trump, and China's Vulnerabilities" (Earnshaw Books, 2026)
Sunita Sah
Author of Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes
Author, Defy
Episode: Sunita Sah, "Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes" (Random House, 2025)
Chris Griswold
Policy Director at American Compass, conservative policy analyst
American Compass
Episode: The Crisis of American Political Economy: On the New Conservative Policy Agenda with Chris Griswold
Gary Hoover
Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University
Tulane University
Episode: Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Promises

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Alfred Marcus
Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technological Leadership, host of On the Cusp Between Strategy and Ethics.

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4.4 out of 5 stars from 102 ratings
  • Amazing podcast

    An incredibly entertaining way to learn new things about economics! Highly recommend especially the episode episodes with Peter Lorentzen. He’s really entertaining and I enjoy listening to him.

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    5
    Happykittyonthemoon
    United Statesa year ago
  • Used to be rigorous

    This used to be more about presenting research and new theories, and more rigorous. Now you’re getting episodes from organizations with the word “freedom” in them and episodes were people share cool Milton Freedman stories. It feels almost like advertising money has come in and made editorial demands…

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    Ochtapas
    United States3 years ago
  • Great show….

    …aside from the episodes I host.

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    5
    Peter Lorentzen, Economist
    United States3 years ago
  • Interviewers are not skilled

    Great book selections, great theme, should be a great podcast, but WOW all the hosts seem totally unprepared, have super vague questions (what did you think about that?) they ask each time, and they stumble through the interview like undergrads. Do your homework and read the book - ask questions that advance the conversation - speak up and don’t say “Uh.” This pod would be so much better if you followed this advice.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    Shunryu Garvey
    Japan4 years ago
  • Too heavily politicised

    I used to enjoy this podcast when it discussed a broad range of economic issues. The recent episodes, however, are becoming more obscure and radical. My guess is these episodes now have to lowest listening rates in the channel’s history. If these titles are the best works coming out of academia, no wonder people are switching off in droves.

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    Aiden086
    Australia4 years ago

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Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Q: Can you explain what Williams' thesis is and how your assessment differs?
Eric Williams argued that the industrial revolution was funded by profits from the transatlantic slave trade, a claim that sparked decades of debate. Trevor Jackson acknowledges the thesis' importance but argues that while slavery enriched some groups, it did not single-handedly explain capitalist development globally; instead, capitalism and slavery interacted in complex ways, with property regimes and global markets shaping outcomes.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: Why did the 1970s crisis not prove terminal for global capitalism, and what was the mechanism that allowed continued expansion?
He argues the 1970s crisis did not exhaust capital's capacity for expansion; a counteroffensive—globalization and transnational capital flows—reorganized production and accumulation, enabling a new wave of expansion despite deep structural tensions.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Q: Could you please give us a brief overview of this crisis, how it was a turning point, and why the crisis wasn't terminal for global capitalism at this time?
Robinson explains that crises are structural and systemic, not terminal because capital has not exhausted its capacity for expansion; the turn to globalization and the rise of the transnational capitalist class marked a shift from structural to systemic crisis, with crises continuing over decades rather than ending abruptly.
Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
Q: What motivated you to choose the Empire of AI as a title for the book?
The empire analogy captures every aspect of the major AI firms: their control of data, exploitation of labor, censorship, monopoly on knowledge, and a moral narrative that casts rivals as threats if not defeated first.
Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)
Q: What would a radical decolonization agenda look like, and how would it change our understanding of inequality and development?
The guest explains drawing on Black Marxism, Third World Marxism, and feminist theory to analyze how power structures shape outcomes, and argues for re-politicizing economics to reveal global interdependencies and to challenge institutions that reproduce unequal development.

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