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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
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…
October 22, 2026
Offshore Oildom
Offshore Oildom: America’s Energy Expansion into the Ocean (LSU Press, 2026) tells the riveting story of the United States’ quest to secure the oil ri…
October 22, 2026
Sea of Treasures
After Caesar's assassination, the triumvirs drew up a kill list; one such target, a man named Lucius Plotius Plancus, fled to a villa near Naples and …
October 18, 2026
Muddy Ground
Edward Blum interviews John William Nelson, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (UNC Press, 2023)In…
October 18, 2026
Fire in the Heart of the City
In American history, few tragedies have been as consequential—and as enduringly misunderstood—as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Long re…
October 18, 2026
Beneath the Wage
Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Princeton UP, 2026) retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service eco…
October 14, 2026
Fictions of Freedom
Fictions of Freedom: Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India (Cambridge UP, 2026) emerges from the fact of anti-trafficking interventions h…
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
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
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
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…