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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
October 13, 2026
Making Sense of China's Economy
Making Sense of China's Economy (Routledge, 2023) untangles China’s complex economic structure, evolving issues and curious contradictions, and explai…
October 10, 2026
An Anticolonial Development
In An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge UP, 2026), Elisa Prosperetti argues that…
October 7, 2026
Notes from the Sex Worker Left
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) open…
October 7, 2026
Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World
Belize is often described as a “pristine” ecotourism destination with a landscape that is “naturally” valuable. Yet for much of the twentieth century,…
October 7, 2026
Down and Out in Utopia
Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on w…
October 5, 2026
Soviet Blocks
A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris—the stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by t…
October 4, 2026
Obsolete
Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace…
October 3, 2026
Lives, Land, and Labour
The "Thombos" are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour pro…
October 2, 2026
Credit to the Nation
From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advanc…
September 30, 2026
Transient Becoming
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragment…
September 29, 2026
Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Lorenzo Feltrin about his recent book Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within (Verso, 2026). They d…
September 28, 2026
Vulgar Marxism
Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the …
September 26, 2026
Power Surge
Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry rediscovered its creative energy, and indie went mainstream without losing its…
September 25, 2026
Miracle Road
Research Triangle Park in North Carolina (RTP) emerged under the unique circumstances of a poor Southern state that needed to find a way to offset the…
September 23, 2026
A Daring Enterprise
What happens when the United States launches an unconventional foreign aid program in the aftermath of a national uprising? In this behind-the-scenes …
September 21, 2026
Property Values
As affordability crises once limited to coastal cities have spread across the broader United States, the history of home and land ownership has never …
September 19, 2026
Brokers of Power
The twenty-first century has seen major transformations in the US electricity sector—but while the use of coal power wanes and the need for renewable …
September 18, 2026
Through the Roof
Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Alexander Reisen…
September 18, 2026
Class Struggle and the New York Mets
With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social history. Writi…
September 16, 2026
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2026) examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through…