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Economic and Business History
Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.
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…
July 30, 2026
Hungry Oklahoma
In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting …
July 28, 2026
Fintech Capital
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University …
July 28, 2026
Authoritarian Markets
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978 China …
July 28, 2026
Beyond the Ocean
In Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2026), Christopher Hodson and…
July 26, 2026
Dynamic Universities
In times of deep uncertainty, the university needs to transform itself into an entrepreneurial entity to maintain long-term evolutionary fitness. Dyna…
July 25, 2026
Gerontocracy in America
A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and …
July 25, 2026
Agrarian Superpower
The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second Wor…
July 24, 2026
Negotiation
The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years and so has negotiation. Traditional negotiating tactics, while still effective, need to …
July 22, 2026
Corporate Power and the Politics of Change
In Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (Cambridge University Press, 2025) Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditiona…
July 21, 2026
The Alibi of Capital:
Stealing the future and concealing the theft—capitalism’s method, as examined by the author of the acclaimed Carbon Democracy Today, extraordinary wea…
July 20, 2026
The Almighty Dollar
America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the worl…
July 19, 2026
Against Money
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card at the grocery store, in looming student-loan debts, in the prices of things w…
July 18, 2026
The Barberini Butchers
In 1644 four norcini or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, the…
July 18, 2026
Middlemen
In this interview, we speak with Laura B. McGrath, an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Middlemen: Literary Agents…
July 17, 2026
San Francisco Seafood
For early San Franciscans, seafood was an important source of nutrition and a feature of social life, inspiring culinary developments that remain comp…
July 16, 2026
175 The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian (JP)
In the spirit of Hannah Arendt's natality principle (that new things are always and should always be being born, each one unique and endowed with limi…
July 16, 2026
The Man Who Stole the Gods
On June 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two pieces of artwork to Cambodia: an Angkor statue and a sandstone lintel. It’s the l…
July 15, 2026
Private Power and Democracy's Decline
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private …
July 13, 2026
Nelson Lichtenstein on Clinton and Neoliberalism
We are joined by Nelson Lichtenstein, one of the deans of American labor history. The conversation ranges widely, from the tragedy of the Clinton admi…