
New Books in Economics
Hosted by Miranda Melcher · Marshall Poe
4.4from 72 ratings
- 1,535
- Episodes
- 47
- Transcribed
- 72
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
About New Books in Economics
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics
- Publisher
- Marshall Poe
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Jun 2010
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
47 of 1,535 episodes have a transcript.

22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
On Converting Customer Service to a Higher Calling

18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work with Annie McClanahan (Princeton UP, 2026)

13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Making Sense of China's Economy with Tao Wang and Michael Leger (Routledge, 2023)
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On Converting Customer Service to a Higher Calling
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Do you want to live with a commodity business where you got to automate as much as possible, get rid of as many people as possible and not very fun environment to work in? Or do you want to shift up this progression of economic value to create more value for your customers, differentiate yourselves from them? And that's the choice every company has to make there. The easy way to think about it is, you know, the sort of down the plate transformation companies is any company that helps people be healthy, wealthier, wise. It's usually an English proverb. Those are all in the transformation business. […]
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