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Stanford finance and economics professor Anat Admati discusses her new book, with Martin Hellwig, THE BANKERS’ NEW CLOTHES: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, out in March, with the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Follow Professor Admati on her popular Twitter feed @anatadmati
Women occupy fewer positions of power in business than men. Why is that? What explains the types of relationships that men have with women and the different ways in which men and women network with friends and acquaintances? In this Social Science Bites podcast, Paul Seabright, author of ‘The War of the Sexes‘, combines an economist’s perspective with insights from biology and evolutionary science to give answers to just these questions.
On Thursday, February 2nd, the 2012 PROSE Awards will be livestreamed from Washington D.C. Hopefully Princeton University Press will be bringing home some prizes! “The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.”
Check out the broadcast from 12-1:30 EST here: http://www.proseawards.com/
Robert Frank, author of The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good and Sheldon Garon, author of Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves were both interviewed for the Vox EU podcast recently.
Robert Frank’s interview is available to listen to here
Sheldon Garon’s interview is available to listen to here
We hope you enjoy them!
Check out this video of Robert Frank’s 11/10 LSE Lecture on his new book: The Darwin Economy: liberty, competition, and the common good. The book’s Facebook page is updated regularly with news, clippings, and author videos!
Exceptional People, a new book by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan, puts migration in a deep historical context–some 50,000 years of it. This topic isn’t going away any time soon, not with election season just around the corner, so this is one to keep an eye on.
By bringing a whole new set of evidence to the raging debate, Goldin argues that migration is not simply a problem to be fixed but rather a process to be managed and coordinating that management is the challenge currently facing the U.S. Exceptional People will be published on June 1 and to kick off his U.S. media tour, Ian Goldin was interviewed by “Patriot Games” for BlogTalkRadio.
Louis Hyman, author of Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, sat down with Gregg Greenberg at TheStreet.com to talk about how American consumers and the economy at large became addicted to borrowing.
You can also listen to the latest on Gregg Greenberg’s TheStreet.com podcasts here.
Click through to listen to Shamus Rahman Khan, the author of the forthcoming book Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School being interviewed about inequality and elite studies.
THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES got some lovin’ Friday night from host Rachel Maddow. Many thanks to MSNBC producers for inviting Jill on the show to share her thoughts about the poaching of history by the Tea Party.
Jill Lepore and WGBH’s Callie Crossley talk tea parties, rabble rousing, and the potent symbolism of “revolutionary kitsch.” (Jill’s segment starts around the 36 minute mark.)
Less than a month until books are in! Don’t be tardy for the party. THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES pubs October 6.
At long last, the podcast for David Reznick’s April 27th interview on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show is available here!
(Three cheers for technological evolution and embedding codes.)
Reznick, a biology professor at UC Riverside, has managed to break through the glut of Darwinniversary coverage with his fresh reading of the Origin for a 21st century audience. 150 years later, we’re still talking about his book so Charles Darwin must have made good on those early ambitions to be, as Reznick tells Lopate, “the Isaac Newton of Social Science.” Here’s hoping David Reznick enjoys such lasting readership with ON THE ORIGIN THEN AND NOW.
In case you were busy shoveling the latest coating of white stuff this past Friday and missed it, PUP author Catherine Manegold made her WBUR “Radio Boston” debut to field call-in questions about the buried history of slavery in the north. Check out the WBUR website to hear the fascinating podcast and view the slideshow of sites featured in the book, TEN HILLS FARM.
Black History Month has come and gone. Hard to believe since we’ve spent almost as many days out of the office as in it this February (not that we’re complaining too loudly!) so in March, let’s continue to be mindful of the forgotten past. Though the media may have moved onto more present concerns like the never ending healthcare debate and the latest in a string of blindsiding natural disasters, Catherine Manegold’s book brings tidings of great dismay to many who live under the deluded belief that the north was guilt-free when it came to owning slaves.
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These are the best-selling books for the past week.
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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco |
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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson |
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil |
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers by John MacCormick |
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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt |
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino Selected and with an introduction by Michael Wood Translated by Martin McLaughlin |
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T.J. Clark |
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Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach Translated by Shelley Frisch |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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