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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
November 12, 2026
R. Edward Freeman’s Selected Works on Stakeholder Theory and Business Ethics
Ed Freeman’s influential ideas on stakeholder theory, business ethics, humanities, and capitalism became foundational in the management field and turn…
November 12, 2026
The Blueprint
Neither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.Capitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprin…
November 11, 2026
Laboring in the Shadows
Youth workers are essential to the fabric of society. Schools, families, and many of our social institutions rely heavily on their work, yet their con…
November 11, 2026
Bordeaux Chronicle
Photographer Peter Aaron and acclaimed wine writer Jane Anson join the New Books Network to discuss Bordeaux Chronicle (Vendome Press, 2026), a visual…
November 9, 2026
Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity
Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided A…
November 8, 2026
The Disease of Money
The twelfth century was a pivotal time in Japan’s history. It witnessed intense factionalism at the imperial court in Kyoto, Japan’s first national ci…
November 8, 2026
The Capitalist Era
Jeremy Adelman’s The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind (Princeton University Press, 2026) puts the world’s current unwinding…
November 7, 2026
One from Many
We tend to talk about globalisation as if it arrived with container ships, multinationals and the internet. Christopher Meissner’s One from the Many: …
November 6, 2026
Assembling Religion
How Henry Ford institutionalized a social gospel Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought…
November 5, 2026
Agents of Inertia
In the first half of the twentieth century, Asia's colonial trade, commerce, and enterprise pivoted on five cities- Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ca…
November 4, 2026
People For Oil
The oil industry today sponsors dozens of citizen advocacy organizations. Often called 'front groups' or 'astroturf,' they have become key actors in f…
November 4, 2026
Black Market Intimacies
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War (Stanford UP, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities …
November 3, 2026
Death in Westminster: 1. The Station
To listen to the entire four-part series, subscribe here.In 2018, Gyula Remes died in the underpass at Westminster tube station, just steps from the H…
November 3, 2026
Jim Crow from the Harbor
How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better…
November 2, 2026
An Injury to All
Whatever happened to the working class? A compelling new social history of Britain since 1945From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon…
October 29, 2026
Karmic Winds
Karmic Winds: Reflections from “The Smartest Guy in Hollywood” (Rare Bird Books, 2026) is a memoir of power, collapse, and reckoning by Peter M. Hoffm…
October 29, 2026
Stewards of the Land
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth…
October 25, 2026
Troop Movements
Tejasvi Nagaraja joins Michael Stauch to talk about Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (U Pennsylvan…
October 24, 2026
Selling the Word of God
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible (Bodleian, 2026) by Dr. Harry Spillane is a history of the English Bible as…
October 23, 2026
Art for War
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displac…