Yesterday I was tired after running so I neglected to post the newsletter version on my 7/7 playlist, they’re listed below!
It was a recovery day for me after my long run, but in between meetings I still got out and listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!
First was a great panel on the latest US labor developments with Seth Harris, Ali Bustamante, Hamilton Nolan, and Harold Phillips at Power At Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNDfPWMoy7U
Next was an amazing talk by Martin Senftleben on normative consumer concepts for sustainable and algorithmically-resilient trademark law at UCL Faculty of Laws. Senftleben cuts to to the heart of what we want trademark law to achieve for different stakeholders and how to update it to meet modern challenges. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRcES74fWU
Next was an interesting talk by Jacob Fisher on shareholder activism around community banks on the Business Scholarship Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xozBJo0uZU
Last was "The Informal Economy Revisited," edited by Martha Chen and Francoise Carre. This book is a whirlwind tour through the past, present, and efforts to shape the future of the informal economy. There's so much crammed into this relatively short book - I honestly wish it was more than twice as long. Luckily the different chapters, each covering a different issue and written by different scholars, provide citations for follow-on reading. I particularly liked the chapters on revising labor law (Judy Fudge) and on comparing waste pickers in 19th century Paris and contemporary Montevideo (Lucía Fernandez). Highly recommend the whole volume https://www.routledge.com/The-Informal-Economy-Revisited-Examining-the-Past-Envisioning-the-Future/Chen-Carre/p/book/9780367513894
7/7/26 #AcademicRunPlaylist
I hit 100km! While I took this picture a few km before I hit my new record, I thought it was too good an opportunity to pass up. I went on a nice long loop from Tokyo to Yokohama and back (with a few slight detours), and you better believe that gave me time to listen to talks and books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!
First was a fantastic talk by Neale Mahoney on the dynamics of the healthcare job market in the US at the Toulouse School of Economics. Mahoney shows the extremely unique characteristics of careers in this space and their growth over time, importantly identifying the wide gap between demand and supply and the role of policy in reducing it over the long term. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6gV-c-0mI
Next was "Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World," edited by Raquel Varela, Marcel van der Linden, and Hugh Murphy. This collection of papers on the shipbuilding industry and its workforce is an absolute gem, with each author focusing on a different market and bringing either an economic, historic, or sociological lens. There's unfortunately little about the experiences of workers themselves here, but given the breadth of the volume that's forgivable. Particularly notable for me were the chapters on Britain (Murphy), Japan (Takeshi Haraguchi and Kazuya Sakurada), and South Korea (Wonchul Shin). Even if you're not interested in the industry specifically, the combination of geopolitical shocks that reverberated across markets, differences in organization and financing, and the relationship between these and other factors and outcomes is fascinating. Highly recommend https://www.routledge.com/Shipbuilding-and-Ship-Repair-Workers-around-the-World-Case-Studies-1950-2010/Varela-Murphy-Linden/p/book/9781041186069
Last was "The History of Japanese Economic Development" by Kenichi Ohno. This is your standard introductory history of Japanese economic development focusing on the Meiji period to the modern day. If you're already familiar with this history you probably won't learn anything new here, but if you're looking to learn more about this topic this is a solid intro https://www.routledge.com/The-History-of-Japanese-Economic-Development-Origins-of-Private-Dynamism-and-Policy-Competence/Ohno/p/book/9781138215429
