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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
November 26, 2024
Slow Wood
In Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests (Yale UP, 2024), environmental historian Brian Donahue advances a radical proposal for healing the r…
November 25, 2024
Dangerous Anarchist Strikers
Dangerous Anarchist Strikers (Brill, 2023) explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical women who participated in labor union strikes in Arge…
November 25, 2024
The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department stores…
November 24, 2024
The Gravity of Feathers
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ l…
November 24, 2024
Analog Superpowers
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: …
November 23, 2024
Health Freaks
In Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), Dr. Travis A. Weisse tells a…
November 21, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…
November 18, 2024
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina
In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed account of the colony's population. Among the groups …
November 18, 2024
Only the Clothes on Her Back
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American soc…
November 18, 2024
Balkan Cyberia
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…
November 16, 2024
From Click to Boom
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
November 13, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly batt…
November 11, 2024
In Pursuit of Unicorns
Modern biotechnology--genetic engineering and cell manipulation--originated with the 1973 demonstration that genes from different organisms could be r…
November 11, 2024
Empire of Rags and Bones
Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything…
November 9, 2024
Routledge Handbook of Esports
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growi…
November 7, 2024
Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?
In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…
November 5, 2024
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi…
November 5, 2024
A Third Path
Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…
November 4, 2024
On "Automation"
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern …
November 3, 2024
Savings and Trust
In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hill Edwards exposes how the rise and tragic failure …