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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
August 30, 2026
Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner
Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s (Northern Illinois University Press, 2026) tells the story of the …
August 28, 2026
Foul Play in the Nonprofit Sector
It is quite easy to find corruption within nonprofits. This is particularly the case in the subsector of not-for-profits that are incorporated as trad…
August 27, 2026
China Office of Finnish Industries
Why have Finland’s biggest multinationals teamed up to create a globally unique analysis hub just to decode the future of China? Meet the analysts who…
August 27, 2026
Protecting Workers?
In our recent conversation about Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia (Helsinki UP, 2026), the editors Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfri…
August 26, 2026
A New Era of Philanthropy
Can philanthropy be an anti-racist, feminist, relational, and joyful expression of solidarity? This book argues that it not only can be for the future…
August 25, 2026
How Economics Discovered Women
In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The resu…
August 25, 2026
Chains of Command
Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2026) is a surprising look at the big business of o…
August 22, 2026
Democracy in Power
In Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Sandeep Vaheesan recounts the rather ove…
August 21, 2026
China Comes to Town:
Chinese investment in the United States has become an increasingly contentious issue that is much more complicated than headlines suggest. In this epi…
August 20, 2026
The Making of Modern Eating
Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most rapid…
August 20, 2026
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI? It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, grounded in exp…
August 19, 2026
Ganja Matters
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Ca…
August 19, 2026
Making Care Work
A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is mu…
August 18, 2026
This World in a Teacup
Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, …
August 16, 2026
Pedagogies of Value
Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of …
August 16, 2026
Real Estate
Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital (gta Verlag, 2026)challenges the conventional assumption that architects and planners are the princ…
August 15, 2026
Shadow Negotiators
Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. Marguli…
August 13, 2026
Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a fascinating,…
August 10, 2026
Public Housing in Japan
Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On (Brill, 2026) is the first comprehensive English-language examination of the Dōj…
July 31, 2026
Coding Capitalism
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After W…