Economic and Business History

Economic and Business History

episodes

Interviews with scholars of economic and business history about their new books.

Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)

November 18, 2024

Only the Clothes on Her Back

Laura F. Edwards
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American soc…

D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

November 18, 2024

Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina

D. Andrew Johnson
Hosted by Latoya Johnson

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 …

Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

November 18, 2024

Balkan Cyberia

Victor P. Petrov
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

From Click to Boom

Lizhi Liu
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

November 13, 2024

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

Hosted by Gordon Katic

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…

Tim Harris, "In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor, 2024)

November 11, 2024

In Pursuit of Unicorns

Tim Harris
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Modern biotechnology--genetic engineering and cell manipulation--originated with the 1973 demonstration that genes from different organisms could be r…

Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 11, 2024

Empire of Rags and Bones

Anne Berg
Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything…

Seth E. Jenny et al., "Routledge Handbook of Esports" (Routledge, 2024)

November 9, 2024

Routledge Handbook of Esports

Seth E. Jenny

The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growi…

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

November 7, 2024

Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri

In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a foc…

Melissa Teixeira, "A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 5, 2024

A Third Path

Melissa Teixeira
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” bet…

Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)

November 5, 2024

We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

Mara Kardas-Nelson
Hosted by Nick Pozek

In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the complex history and impact of microfinance - the practi…

Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation

November 4, 2024

On "Automation"

Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff
Hosted by Lee Vinsel

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern …

Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)

November 3, 2024

Savings and Trust

Justene Hill Edwards
Hosted by Brian Hamilton

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 …

Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)

November 2, 2024

Crude Capitalism

Adam Hanieh
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon

Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer…

From Rubinomics to Bidenomics: On the Democratic Party’s Shifting Trade & Industrial Policy

November 1, 2024

From Rubinomics to Bidenomics

Lily Geismer and Mark Blyth
Hosted by Gordon Katic

This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battle…

Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 31, 2024

Atlas of Finance

Dariusz Wojcik et al.
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…

Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)

October 29, 2024

The Neomercantilists

Eric Helleiner

At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps mak…

Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 29, 2024

Floor Rules

Mark W. Geiger
Hosted by Meghan Cochran

Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that th…

Michael Hardt, "The Subversive Seventies" (Oxford UP, 2023)

October 29, 2024

The Subversive Seventies

Michael Hardt

A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "s…

Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Quinine's Remains

Townsend Middleton
Hosted by Rounak Bose

What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of Ind…