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About Javier Mejia
Javier Mejia is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Department at Stanford University. His work focuses on the intersection between social networks and economic history, extending to topics on entrepreneurship and political economy with a geographical specialty in Latin America and the Middle East. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Los Andes University. He has been a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at New York University--Abu Dhabi and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bordeaux. Javier is a regular contributor to different news outlets. Currently, he is a Forbes Magazine op-ed columnist.Javier Mejia is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Department at Stanford University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Javier:
May 5, 2023
Power and Progress
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a groundbreaking work by bestselling authors Da…
May 4, 2023
The Earth Transformed
The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving force …
April 15, 2023
Seven Crashes
In Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale UP, 2023), distinguished economic historian Harold James offers a fresh perspect…
March 18, 2023
Pioneers of Capitalism
During the Middle Ages, the Netherlands played a significant role in the emergence of capitalism, which led to the impressive Dutch Golden Age and pav…
February 19, 2023
Sacred Foundations
Sacred Foundations. The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023) argues that the medieval church was a fu…
February 9, 2023
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration (Routledge, 2022) offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region …
January 21, 2023
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, beco…
January 1, 2023
The Greeks and the Rational
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations, the Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled perform…
December 19, 2022
The Capital Order
A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to t…
December 17, 2022
From Development to Democracy
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been trans…
November 16, 2022
Human Development and the Path to Freedom
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across co…
November 1, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the la…
October 31, 2022
Geography Is Destiny
In Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World--A 10,000-Year History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year h…
September 5, 2022
Slouching Towards Utopia
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied Before 1870, human…
July 28, 2022
Pawned States
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign …
July 19, 2022
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 2022) is an entertaining and engaging guide to global ec…
June 23, 2022
Why We Fight
In Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace (Viking, 2022), Chris Blattman explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into wa…
June 9, 2022
How the World Became Rich
Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pa…
June 1, 2022
Streets of Gold
In Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022), Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan reveal the true story of immigr…
May 31, 2022
Sovereign Debt Diplomacies
Pierre Penet and Juan Flores Zendejas' book Sovereign Debt Diplomacies: Rethinking Sovereign Debt from Colonial Empires to Hegemony (Oxford UP. 2021) …
May 16, 2022
A Brief History of Equality
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one h…
April 26, 2022
In Defense of Public Debt
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Th…
April 11, 2022
Agents of Reform
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to wo…
March 29, 2022
The Handbook of Historical Economics
The Handbook of Historical Economics (Academic Press, 2021) guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up…