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Historian Stephen Kotkin joins Alphaville's Matt Klein to discuss how Joseph Stalin's violent commitment to Marxist-Leninism shaped Soviet society in the 1930s. It's the subject of Kotkin's latest book, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist Sebastian Edwards joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss the modern emergence of populism, and how his research of populist economics can be applied to Donald Trump's economic agenda.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Urban studies theorist Richard Florida joins Aimee Keane to discuss his latest book, "The New Urban Crisis".  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Historian and biographer Jeremy Adelman joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss the life and ideas of economist Albert O. Hirschman once again. In this episode, the two cover Hirschman's most famous treatise, "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty".  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan Drezner, writer and professor of international politics, joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss his latest book, "The Ideas Industry: how pessimists, partisans and plutocrats are transforming the marketplace of ideas". They also talk about the global populist wave, identity-based politics, and how to resist the temptation to say yes to everything.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and author known for his work on the addictive properties of sugar and its effect on the brain, joins Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska to discuss his latest book, which applies his work on addiction to the technological realm. The book is called The Hacking of the American Mind.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist Jennifer Hunt joins Cardiff to discuss the findings of a major study on the economic impact of immigration on the US.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When electronic trading was introduced on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, volumes handled by traders in the open-outcry pits were quickly overshadowed by those done by computers. Many of the floor traders soon found themselves out of work, and without proper training to find other jobs in finance. But one of those traders, Tom Gordon, embarked on a second act in his career, one that, for now, can’t be done by an algorithm or a robot. This podcast was produced as part of an FT Health at Work special report. Read more at FT.com/health-work. Music courtesy of Dave Depper, Podington Bear, Pure Grease and Peter Sandberg  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist Ricardo Hausmann joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss the historical foundation of Venezuela's current macroeconomic and humanitarian crisis, what may happen with its debt and what the future holds for the country.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lina Khan, a writer and fellow at New America, joins FT Alphaville's Alex Scaggs to discuss how the tech company's unique organisational structure and business strategy raise possible antitrust issues that current law isn't particularly well designed to address. It's the subject of Khan's paper, "Amazon's antitrust paradox", recently published in the Yale Law Journal.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Harvard sociologist Mary Waters, who chairs the National Academy of Sciences Panel on The Integration of Immigrants into American Society, talks to Cardiff Garcia about the findings of a massive study conducted and published by her panel.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati, two of the world's foremost experts on sovereign debt restructuring, join the FT's Robin Wigglesworth to explain Venezuela's looming debt crisis and options for solving it, while the country's economic collapse and humanitarian problems continue to worsen.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scott Galloway, professor of marketing and founder of brand think tank L2, joins the FT's Shannon Bond to talk about the death of advertising as we know it, how Amazon is changing the way we consume and why he is betting on voice technology.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist Gabriel Zucman joins the FT's Matt Klein to talk about the use of tax havens and the effect tax evasion has on inequality and other macroeconomic measurements, which is the subject of his book "The Hidden Wealth of Nations".  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second of a two-part series, economist Michael Pettis joins the FT's Cardiff Garcia and Matt Klein to discuss the state of the Chinese economy.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Economist Michael Pettis joins the FT’s Cardiff Garcia and Matt Klein to discuss the macroeconomic framework he introduced in his book The Great Rebalancing.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Angus Deaton, the 2015 winner of the economics Nobel Prize, tells host Cardiff Garcia about his early influences and the work for which he won the award.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tim Harford joins Cardiff Garcia to talk about the way 50 different inventions have shaped the way the economy works today, from video games to the tally stick. It's the subject of his latest book, "Fifty things that made the modern economy", and a BBC audio series.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and MIT professor joins host Cardiff Garcia to discuss her work on the incentive systems that drive innovation in medical technology, including the effect of patents on the development of early stage cancer drug treatments.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In light of Amazon's $13.7bn Whole Foods takeover, Cardiff Garcia talks with the FT's Shannon Bond and Anna Nicolaou about the state of the US retail industry.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.