NB Finance

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.👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/gene-ludwig-th…

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👇 newbooksnetwork.com/thomas-levenso…

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👇 newbooksnetwork.com/jc-de-swaan-se…

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). lithub.com/how-paper-mone…

BANK NOTES and SHINPLASTERS (@PennPress) describes the many types of money in circulation in early America and how participants in the economic system had to master paper money transaction by transaction. 🎙️@joshrgreenberg joins @HistoryInvestor ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/joshua-greenbe…

#Finance has transformed from a servant to the economy to its master--from a means of creating a prosperous society to an end in itself. 🎙️@mtobiasneely and @kenhoulin, co-authors of DIVESTED: Inequality in the Age of Finance (@OUPAcademic), join us ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/megan-t-neely-…

Think that Wall Street has nothing to do with the real economy? ...it turns out, you are wrong. The tools of finance were as important for the rise of civilization as were the soldiers, castles & battles. Listen to a review of @WGoetzmann's, "Money Changes Everything" #SOMfinfac

Many thanks to historian/financier Daniel Peris for this thoughtful review!

The tools of finance were as important for the rise of civilization as were the soldiers, castles and battles. Listen in as Daniel Peris (@HistoryInvestor) discusses William N. Goetzmann's MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING (@PrincetonUPress) on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/daniel-peris-o…

How did academic economists rise “from the basement” of banks and universities into policymaking roles that have influenced almost every aspect of our lives? Tune in as @Back2BizBook interviews @BCAppelbaum, author of THE ECONOMISTS' HOUR (@littlebrown)👇 newbooksnetwork.com/binyamin-appel…

.@DavidBahnsen has written a concise, powerful and up-to-date statement in favor or bringing a tangible cashflow sensibility to stock market investing. Tune in as he discusses THE CASE for DIVIDEND GROWTH (@PostHillPress) w/@Back2BizBook on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/david-bahnsen-…

A key work in the growing literature in the #Sociology of #Finance, CHAINS of FINANCE (@OUPEconomics) highlights investment as an interactive social process, not a cut & dried application of some algorithm. Listen in as @EmbraBurgess joins @Back2BizBook👇 newbooksnetwork.com/philip-grant-c…

How are markets made? 🎙️@DrDaveOBrien has @pardoguerra on the #podcast to discuss AUTOMATING FINANCE (@CUPAcademic), a detailed theoretical engagement with the personalities and technological changes underpinning the modern system of automated finance. newbooksnetwork.com/juan-pablo-par…

From the family farm to craft breweries to tech start ups, Small Business is the ❤️ and soul of the American economy. @RobAtkinsonITIF and Michael Lind disagree. Find out why BIG IS BEAUTIFUL (@MITBooks) as Atkinson joins @Back2BizBook on the #podcast ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/robert-atkinso…

FINANCIAL MODELS & SOCIETY (@Elgar_Economics) looks at how quantitative models are used by investors, finding a whole space where human judgment, intuition & non-model based factors influence their implementation. @EkaterinaSvet19 joins @Back2BizBook👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ekaterina-svet…

Richard Vague really really cares about private-sector debt. In A BRIEF HISTORY of DOOM (@PennPress), he sees private sector debt as the key factor explaining the cycle of economic crises over the past 200 years. ☑️ out his discussion w/@Back2BizBook ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/richard-vague-…

Private sector debt is the key to our boom and bust cycle. According to Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises". Hear the @NewBooksFinance / @NewBooksNetwork interview at tinyurl.com/y2gqz89a. His data is at bankingcrisis.org./

What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? Tobias Straumann has written 1931 (@OUPHistory), a new look at the debt trap that helped spawn Nazism. He discusses the 📕 and shares his insights w/@Staxomatix on the #podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/tobias-strauma…

"Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard? Try doing it as an African American woman in the Jim Crow South." #BankingOnFreedom @NewBooksNetwork Finance podcast w/Daniel Peris @Back2BizBook. @ABWHTruth @citeblackwomen @ColumbiaUP bit.ly/2FuaIKW