My dog had the right idea this afternoon, and after cruelly tearing him away from his outdoor "bed" I took him for a nice outing while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a compelling conversation with Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on using tax policy to mitigate and compensate for generative AI societal-level harms on the Business Scholarship Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3td8y7Dw50

Next was an excellent session on the transformation of Japanese corporate governance and investor activism at the UCL Faculty of Laws with Hiroyuki Watanabe, Claire Altman, Paul Davies, Irene-marie Esser, and Dionysia Katelouzou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv60nRgkg0I

Next was an engaging discussion between friends of the playlist Ann Lipton and Michael Levin on how proxy voting actually works, with an instructive examination of recent events at Starbucks, on the Shareholder Primacy Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5QqUrgp8w

Last was "The Banker Ladies" by Caroline Shenaz Hossein. The core of this book is a fascinating and important exploration of rotating savings and credit associations in different parts of the world, with Hossein demonstrating how the Black and racialized women who run and participate in these associations benefit from and conceptualize this activity. There's a lot of introductory material here on why these people are traditionally marginalized by the financial sector and why the fields of economics and sociology have tended to discount these associations. If you're unfamiliar with the literature on economic and sociological discrimination this will be useful context, but otherwise you're best off skipping these sections https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487557034