Kim Oosterlinck on Dynastic Politicians and the Decision to Commit Democratic Suicide

On 10 July 1940, the French parliament committed democratic suicide. Which MPs resisted and why? Kim Oosterlinck is Professor of Finance at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Research Fellow at the CEPR. He holds a Master in Management, a Master in Art History and Archaeology, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). After a post-doctoral stay at Rutgers University, he came back at ULB as professor. His main research interests are sovereign bond valuation, financial history and questions related to the art market. Kim Oosterlinck has published,  in 2016, a book on the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Bonds (Yale University Press). He is currently Vice-Rector in charge of Prospective and Finance at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Pierre Laval in Vichy France, 1940

Pierre Laval in Vichy France, 1940

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Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj on Cryptocurrency

We speak with Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj about the future of bitcoin, tether and libra. Ganesh is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School. His research interests are in international finance, with a focus on foreign exchange derivatives, market microstructure and cryptocurrencies. In recent research, he has been investigating a class of cryptocurrencies called stable coins that are currencies operating on the blockchain and are pegged to the US dollar. He also investigates price-setting in forex swap markets, and uses financial data to identify linkages between monetary policy, financial markets and the real economy. 

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John Horgan on Defunding the Military

We speak with John Horgan about the end of war. John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer at Scientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Slate and other publications. He writes the "Cross-check" blog for Scientific American and produces "Mind-Body Problems" for the online talk show Bloggingheads.tv. He tweets as @horganism.

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Tom Zoellner on The First Ever Boycott and The Baptist War

Tom Zoellner is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire, and works as a professor at Chapman University and Dartmouth College. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The American Scholar, The Oxford American, Time, Foreign Policy, Men’s Health, Slate, Scientific American, Audubon, Sierra, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Texas Observer, Departures, The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Tom is a fifth-generation Arizonan and a former staff writer for The Arizona Republic and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Lannan Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.  

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Rasna Warah on the UN Security Council

We speak with Rasna Warah about the Security Council and international law. Rasna Warah is a Kenyan writer and journalist. In a previous incarnation, she was an editor at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She has published two books on Somalia – War Crimes (2014) and Mogadishu Then and Now (2012) – and is the author UNsilenced (2016), and Triple Heritage (1998).

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Ron Eglash on African Fractals and Generative Justice

We speak with Professor Ron Eglash about the influence of indigenous African mathematics on computing, and moving from extraction to generative justice. Professor Ron Eglash’s groundbreaking research on African Fractals revealed the African roots of modern computing, which was otherwise largely hidden. His TED Talk on the subject has had more than 1.7 million views, and has inspired innovations in architecture, arts, literature and education. He created a new discipline called ethnocomputing and today supports a suite of online simulations called Culturally Situated Design Tools, which have been used in American schools and internationally to allow students to learn math and computing through what he calls “heritage algorithms”. His most recent work on “Generative Justice,” develops an alternative economic theory based on indigenous principles. His education background includes a BS in cybernetics, MS in Systems Engineering, and a PhD in the History of Consciousness. He is currently a Professor with appointments in both the School of Information and in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.

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Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Kevin Deane on Recharting the History of Economic Thought

We talk with Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Kevin Deane about their new book. Elisa Van Waeyenberge is a lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. She teaches macroeconomic analysis to undergraduate and graduate diploma students as well as research methods to master students. Her research interests include alternative macroeconomic policies in developing countries, the role of International Financial Institutions across policy and scholarly realms, as well as the financing of infrastructure and public service provision. Kevin Deane is a Lecturer in Global Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. He studied Development and Economics at SOAS, and gained a MSc in Development Economics and a PhD in Economics. His main research interests relate to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and draws on a range of disciplines including economics, development studies, public health and social epidemiology. 

This textbook is aimed at undergraduate students, and takes a thematic, rather than chronological, approach to the subject. Many of the chapters are authored by members of Reteaching Economics.

This textbook is aimed at undergraduate students, and takes a thematic, rather than chronological, approach to the subject. Many of the chapters are authored by members of Reteaching Economics.

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Hans-Joachim Voth on Bank Failures and the Rise of the Nazis

We talk with Hans-Joachim Voth about the link between financial crisis and Hitler’s rise to power. Hans-Joachim Voth (D.Phil, Oxford, 1996), holds the UBS Chair of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the Economics Department, Zurich University. He is an economic historian with interests in financial history, long-term persistence and growth, as well as political risk and macroeconomic instability. Hans-Joachim Voth is a Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics Program at CEPR (London), a member of the Royal Historical Society, a joint Managing Editor of the Economic Journal, an Editor of Explorations in Economic History, and an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, European Economic Review, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, as well as in three academic books (including, in 2014, Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II, Princeton University Press).​

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Vicente Rubio-Pueyo on Unidas Podemos and the Future of the Spanish Left

We speak with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo about the coalition government of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos. Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a professor at Fordham University. He has written extensively, both in academic contexts and in the press, on the current social and political conjuncture in Spain, and on political forces including Podemos and the Municipalist Confluences. A Spaniard living in the US for more than ten years now, Vicente has also been active in building connections and mutual understanding between these forces and their counterparts in North America.

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