How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

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Challenging China: Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era

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Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

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Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game

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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

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The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

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The Great U.S.-China Tech War

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Understanding China [3rd Edition]: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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The Future Is Asian

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Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

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This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States

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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

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Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth

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International Relations: A Simple Introduction

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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

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Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty | Summary

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Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise

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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises

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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

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Great State: China and the World

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Poverty Traps

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Capital and Ideology [Audio]

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Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy | Kishore Mahbubani: China and the United States are the world powers of the 21st century. With many differences in political philosophy and diplomatic methods, they approach each other warily and communicate poorly. In Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American...

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Good Economics for Hard Times [Audio]

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Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022): An interview with Gary Gerstle

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America, China and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics

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MegaThreats with Nouriel Roubini: On this bonus episode, Guy, Dan, and Danny discuss what to expect from the markets in the week ahead + Nouriel Roubini joins the podcast.

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Tech and democracy with Yuval Noah Harari: Mark talks with Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons For the 21st Century. They discuss some of the most important topics surrounding the future of technology and society – like whether the internet is connecting or fragmenting communities, the different ways artificial intelligence could be developed, how algorithms will continue to impact people's lives, and why it’s so important that we don't store sensitive data in countries with weak rule of law or where governments can forcibly get access to that data.

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Shoshana Zuboff and Rosamund Urwin: We live in an age of "surveillance capitalism" - where technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions. Big tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, and entire i...

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295 | Chris Miller: The Chip War and the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology: Chris Miller, Tufts University professor and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, joins The Realignment to discuss how and why microchip technology became the world's most critical resource, the role it plays in the U.S.-China relationship, why Taiwan dominates microchip manufacturing, the implications of an invasion, and the prospects for reshoring chip manufacturing in the U.S.

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103: Brian Mills on the Labor Market in Baseball, the Umpire Strikes Back and R: Dr. Brian Mills is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida within the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management specializing in Managerial Sports Economics. Professor Mills is also Associate Research Faculty within the Eric...

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189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment: Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients. Now imagine that the same doctor making a different decision depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. This is an example...

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The Great Leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century [Audio]

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Skin in the Game, talks with host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. This is the third episode of EconTalk with Taleb related to the general topic of skin in the game and how it affects decision-making and policy in an uncertain world. This episode focuses on rationality, religion, and the challenge of thinking about probability and risk correctly in a dynamic world.

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The Economist Asks: Henry Kissinger: How does the best-known veteran of foreign policy view the great global standoff today? Henry Kissinger is a titan of US politics — as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor in the Nixon and Ford administrations he brokered detente with the S...

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, & Steel: Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the International Bestsellers “Guns, Germs, & Steel” .

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AI 2041: Why the Future is Already Here, with Kai-Fu Lee: Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world’s leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia’s research lab that has trained CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei. As President of Google China he helped establish the compan...

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Collier on the Bottom Billion: Paul Collier talks about the ideas in his recent book, The Bottom Billion, an analysis of why the poorest countries in the world fail to grow. He talks about conflict, natural resources, being landlocked, and bad governance, four factors he identifies as causes of the desperate poverty and stagnation in the countries where 1/6 of the world's poorest peoples live.

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Dr. Yuval Noah Harari — 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: In this dialogue with one of the most interesting minds of our time, the Hebrew University historian and best-selling author (Sapiens, Homo Deus), Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, he and Dr. Shermer discuss the central ideas of his new book, 21...

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End of days or a new world order? With Peter Frankopan

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Gary Gerstle, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era" (Oxford UP, 2022): An interview with Gary Gerstle

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Trillions: Slate Money talks Slate Money talks active investing and Robin Wrigglesworth’s book Trillions, Tether and Masterworks.

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Stephanie Kelton on Modern Monetary Theory: Episode #402. Stephanie Kelton explains modern monetary theory, a new approach to economics. She explains how to break free of the myths and misunderstandings about money and the role of taxes, debt, and deficits that have hamstrung policymakers...

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How to Make the World Add Up, with Tim Harford: This episode was recorded in September 2020. 'The undercover economist' and Numbers and economics guru Tim Harford takes a deep dive into the world of statistics. Drawing on the ideas in his new book, How to Make the Worl...

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Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes" (Random House, 2020): Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the 20th century,..

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Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O'Neil shares about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, on episode 170 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode This has very little to do with technical knowledge and everything to do with power.

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Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (Basic Books, 2020): Dealing with climate change means trade offs. But which ones should we make?

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The Economist Asks: Thomas Piketty: The idea that inequality is rising is being used to explain everything from tribalism to low voter turnout. But how much is known about the gap between the haves and the have-nots, is it growing and why does it matter? Economist Thomas Piketty, dubbed ...

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Chip War with author Chris Miller: Author Chris Miller offers an overview of his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. In this podcast, Miller discusses the geopolitical struggle to both expand and control the semiconductor industry. The outcome, he...

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Nouriel Roubini Predicts a Crisis 'Worse' Than the 1970s

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William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts: William Easterly talks to host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book, The Tyranny of Experts. Easterly argues that poverty endures in many poor countries because of a lack of economic and political freedom for its poorest members. He argues that the aid process and the role experts play in that process reinforces the oppression of the poor. Other topics discussed include data-oriented solutions, autocracy vs. democracy, and Easterly's perspective on development from Bill Gates and recent EconTalk guest Jeffery Sachs.