Mary in America

Mary Childs

Booking Overview

This weekly interview show examines how institutions, markets, technology, education, and cultural systems shape society, featuring academics, journalists, and senior industry leaders as external guests. Credible pitches include economists, social scientists, technology and labor experts, investigative journalists, authors, and executives with substantial insight into major societal systems; booking difficulty is high because guests are typically prominent subject-matter authorities.

Metrics

Episodes: 17

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

katherine@maryinamerica.com

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Host

Mary Childs - Journalist and author focused on the structures, institutions, and systems that shape society.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Recognized economists, academics, journalists, authors, and senior executives with authoritative expertise on institutions, markets, technology, education, labor, or culture.

Required Achievements:

Nobel Prize or other major professional recognition, Authorship of influential books, Professorship at a leading university, Senior leadership at a major organization, Bylined investigative or analytical journalism at a major publication

Recent Guest Discussions

Debra Satz - The Moral Limits Of Markets And Why Some Goods And Activities Should Not Be Treated As Commodities.

Al Roth - The Moral Limits Of Markets, Organ Markets, And Whether Certain Aspects Of Human Life Should Be Commodified.

Rohit Lamba - Artificial Intelligence, Labor Markets, Inequality, Economic Development, And India’s Technological Future.

Amelia Pollard - The AI Investment Boom, Hedge-fund Failures, Market Bubbles, And Financial Risk.

Scott Cameron - Children’s Educational Content, Audience Engagement, And The Social Impact Of Sesame Street.

Recent Topics

Economics, Markets, Artificial Intelligence, Social Policy, Education

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Mary in America

The Bond Market Rules Everything Around Me/You/Us

September 10, 2026

Bonds around the world have been selling off, kind of a lot. And that selloff has sent interest rates on government debt to or near their highest in decades— for US government debt, but also debt from the UK, Germany, France, Japan. What gives? We pulled in one of the people who buys and sells those bonds, Ed Al-Hussainy, at Columbia Threadneedle, which manages a lot of money for other people and institutions. Ed reads the market tea leaves for us about why this is happening, what it means fo...

Why do we love gold so much?

September 03, 2026

Gold was on a tear in August. People, investors, and central banks around the world were buying more and more, in large part because it’s seen as a stable alternative to the dollar, or to any currency. But…why? Why gold? What makes it so special? Friend of the show Jacob Goldstein wrote a book called Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, and he explains the real, physical reasons why we love gold so much, and the long history of our collective obsession. Further Reading Money: The True St...

What Should Not Be For Sale?

August 27, 2026

If you live in the worlds of financial markets and economics, sometimes it can be hard to remember that not all of life can be neatly packaged into data points and lists of pros and cons. And Nobel-Prize-winning-economist and Stanford professor Al Roth is pretty convincing that markets are Good, and that, if you think it through, we *should* allow some kind of market in the trade of *some* human organs. But across the Stanford campus, philosopher Debra Satz says those frameworks are missing t...

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