Today was my last day in Boston for over a week, but before I headed out I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an excellent conversation between Ann Lipton and Michael Levin on the bonkers appraisal strategy some investors are using around M&A transactions on the Shareholder Primacy podcast. There's also a great segment on the types of activist investors. Highly recommend https://youtu.be/2ILbOuiB36k?is=a5nZ5pC5Dzfe0D-D

Next was an interesting talk by Sharon Li on using traditional ML methods to improve agent reliability at the Simons Institute https://www.youtube.com/live/5vBzKW3-wAQ?is=4B9qGasVAEfcjZZc

Last was “Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic” by Bridget Bennett. This is an interesting tour through the archives of the networks driving the transatlantic antislavery movement, with a lot of focus on the Quakers. Bennett goes into impressive detail here, deeply examining particular figures and tracing their activities, interactions, and the impact on resistance campaigns over the decades. This will mostly be of interest to people researching this space, as some of the sections are focused on minutiae that I'm sure is interesting to expert readers but is otherwise laborious to wade through. Still, given how little coverage non-US abolition activities get in most history books, this is an important resource https://lsupress.org/9780807183717/antislavery-in-the-dissenting-atlantic/