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Brent Cebul, "Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
77 hours 37 mins; July 09, 2023
Shortage
20 mins; July 07, 2023
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
47 mins; July 05, 2023
Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 03, 2023
Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
47 mins; July 03, 2023
Jack Metzgar, "Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society" (ILR Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 03, 2023
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
52 mins; July 02, 2023
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
16 mins; June 29, 2023
Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
48 mins; June 28, 2023
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
36 mins; June 27, 2023
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
34 mins; June 26, 2023
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
54 mins; June 26, 2023
Josh Shepperd, "Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
65 hours 16 mins; June 26, 2023
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
80 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2023
Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
127 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2023
Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design
20 mins; June 25, 2023
The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution
17 mins; June 24, 2023
Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)
58 mins; June 24, 2023
Stephanie Decker et al., "Handbook of Historical Methods for Management" (2023)
59 mins; June 23, 2023
Jean Pfaelzer, "California, a Slave State" (Yale UP, 2023)
54 mins; June 23, 2023
David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; June 21, 2023
Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
55 mins; June 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
38 mins; June 20, 2023
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
67 hours 55 mins; June 19, 2023
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2023
Vera Keller, "The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
69 hours 2 mins; June 17, 2023
Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)
25 mins; June 16, 2023
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2023
Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)
74 hours 25 mins; June 13, 2023
J. P. Daughton, "In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-OcĂŠan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism" (Norton, 2021)
59 mins; June 13, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2023
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
51 mins; June 11, 2023
Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
89 hours 27 mins; June 10, 2023
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
48 mins; June 09, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
39 mins; June 08, 2023
Anne L. Murphy, "Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England" (Princeton UP, 2023)
51 mins; June 08, 2023
Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
58 mins; June 06, 2023
Amy Brady, "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
35 mins; June 06, 2023
The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
46 mins; June 03, 2023
Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; June 02, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, "The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty" (Penguin, 2020)
51 mins; June 02, 2023
Simon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
49 mins; May 31, 2023
William J. Bernstein, "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" (Grove Press, 2021)
54 mins; May 28, 2023
Lawrence H. White, "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 28, 2023
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
44 mins; May 27, 2023
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; May 26, 2023
Kenneth Mondschein, "On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
49 mins; May 26, 2023
Missing: Men at Work — A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt
50 mins; May 26, 2023
Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 25, 2023
Suzanne Sutherland, "The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe" (Cornell UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 24, 2023
Adrian R. Bazbauers and Susan Engel, "The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?" (Routledge, 2023)
76 hours 6 mins; May 24, 2023
Natalie Koch, "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (Verso, 2023)
59 mins; May 22, 2023
Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation with Beth Akers
40 mins; May 22, 2023
Enrique Martino, "Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea" (de Gruyter, 2022)
41 mins; May 20, 2023
Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
70 hours 51 mins; May 19, 2023
Inflation, Past and Present: A Conversation with Tyler Goodspeed
43 mins; May 19, 2023
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 18, 2023
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
44 mins; May 17, 2023
Peter Thilly, "The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
70 hours 13 mins; May 14, 2023
Maria L. Quintana, "Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
52 mins; May 12, 2023
John Klaess, "Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City" (Duke UP, 2022)
60 hours 27 mins; May 12, 2023
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
45 mins; May 09, 2023
Sarrah Kassem, "Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organization" (Bristol UP, 2023)
46 mins; May 06, 2023
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
46 mins; May 05, 2023
Jack Buffington, "Reinventing the Supply Chain: A 21st-Century Covenant with America" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
37 mins; May 05, 2023
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
53 mins; May 04, 2023
Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)
51 mins; May 02, 2023
Anne Marie Todd, "Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley" (U California Press, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; May 02, 2023
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
43 mins; May 01, 2023
Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
74 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2023
Artan R. Hoxha, "Sugarland: The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania" (Central European UP, 2023)
52 mins; April 25, 2023
Elliott West, "Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
71 hours 46 mins; April 23, 2023
Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
36 mins; April 22, 2023
Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the PatrĂłn: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)
55 mins; April 19, 2023
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
67 hours 58 mins; April 19, 2023
Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
50 mins; April 17, 2023
Paul Kenny, "Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
39 mins; April 17, 2023
Charles Read, "Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
61 hours 46 mins; April 17, 2023
Luca Zan, "The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use" (Routledge, 2022)
58 mins; April 16, 2023
Harold James, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization" (Yale UP, 2023)
51 mins; April 15, 2023
Nikhil Menon, "Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 13, 2023
Amy Edwards, "Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain" (U California Press, 2022)
34 mins; April 12, 2023
Tim Simpson, "Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
73 hours 47 mins; April 11, 2023
Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
52 mins; April 11, 2023
Kate Strasdin, "The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
52 mins; April 10, 2023
The Cooperative Extension System
21 mins; April 10, 2023
Dror Goldberg, "Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
46 mins; April 09, 2023
Howard Gillette, Jr., "The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023
Johnny Walker, "Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
45 mins; April 07, 2023
Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)
59 mins; April 06, 2023
Sudha Rajagopalan, "Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India" (Routledge, 2023)
41 mins; April 04, 2023
Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 35 mins; April 03, 2023
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
98 hours 56 mins; April 03, 2023
Julia H. Lee, "The Racial Railroad" (NYU Press, 2022)
50 mins; April 01, 2023
The Transformation of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia
64 hours 5 mins; March 31, 2023
Divya Cherian, "Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
72 hours 35 mins; March 24, 2023
Leon Wansleben, "The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 14 mins; March 23, 2023
Weijian Shan, "Money Machine: A Trailblazing American Venture in China" (Wiley, 2023)
44 mins; March 23, 2023
Andrew Phemister, "Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
35 mins; March 20, 2023
From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
79 hours 11 mins; March 19, 2023
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