Bruce Carruthers on the Economy of Promises: How Trust, Power, and Credit Have Shaped America Over the Last Two Hundred Years

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Bruce Carruthers, author of The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America. Bruce G. Carruthers is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton) and the coauthor of, among other books, Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach and Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices