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China's Camel Country
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Likeable Badass
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The Greatest of All Plagues
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September 1, 2024
Unexpected Revolutionaries
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Manuela Moschella investiga…
August 28, 2024
The Human Advantage
In this episode, we explore the insights of Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines (Foru…
August 25, 2024
One Belt One Road
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. …
August 22, 2024
Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volume…
August 20, 2024
Default
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law. Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…
August 20, 2024
The Power to Persuade
The Power to Persuade: Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2024) by Dr. Angela Geck provides an innovative…
August 16, 2024
Unsustainable
In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly e…
August 16, 2024
How to Lead Nonprofits
Non-profit organizations play an indispensable role in the world today, and are consistently rated higher than governments, the media or businesses in…
August 15, 2024
Money, Going Out of Style
What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our soc…
August 14, 2024
The Solidarity Economy
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existi…
August 13, 2024
Cyberboss
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers ar…
August 12, 2024
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Waterhouse, full-as-full-can- be Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel H…
August 11, 2024
Philanthropy in the Arts
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re…
August 10, 2024
The Search for Shelter
The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing (Oxford UP, 2022) sheds light on the global population living in slums, which has increased from …
August 10, 2024
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African countr…
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Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
More than any other global institution, the US Federal Reserve’s decisions and communications drive capital markets and alter financial conditions eve…