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Daniel Morales, "Between Here and There: The Political Economy of Transnational Mexican Migration, 1900-1942" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 46 mins; July 30, 2025
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
105 hours 12 mins; July 27, 2025
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)
49 mins; July 26, 2025
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
40 mins; July 26, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; July 25, 2025
Agathe Demarais, "Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests" (Columbia UP, 2022)
67 hours 28 mins; July 25, 2025
**SPECIAL EDITION** Ford to City: Drop Dead
57 mins; July 24, 2025
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
65 hours 13 mins; July 23, 2025
Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 20, 2025
How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
22 mins; July 19, 2025
David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
47 mins; July 17, 2025
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
34 mins; July 16, 2025
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2025
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
61 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2025
Elizabeth Popp Berman, "Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; July 14, 2025
John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)
105 hours 18 mins; July 14, 2025
Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 21 mins; July 08, 2025
Mara Einstein, "Hoodwinked: How Cult Marketing Tactics Left Us Anxious, Broke, and Conned" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
73 hours 33 mins; July 05, 2025
Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
55 mins; July 05, 2025
Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; July 04, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
55 mins; July 04, 2025
Paul Tucker, "Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; July 03, 2025
Heather Sutherland, "Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C.1600-c.1906" (NUS Press, 2021)
55 mins; July 01, 2025
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
45 mins; June 30, 2025
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
99 hours 16 mins; June 30, 2025
Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 29, 2025
Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
44 mins; June 27, 2025
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
49 mins; June 20, 2025
Prithwiraj Choudhury, "The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
60 hours 0 mins; June 19, 2025
Emily Webber, "Mining Men: Britain's Last Kings of the Coalface" (Penguin, 2025)
32 mins; June 18, 2025
John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch, and Luis Garicano, "Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" (Princeton UP, 2025)
75 hours 1 min; June 17, 2025
Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
65 hours 37 mins; June 17, 2025
Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024)
46 mins; June 16, 2025
L. Sasha Gora, "Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
60 hours 20 mins; June 16, 2025
Rita McGrath, "Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen" (Harper Business, 2019)
69 hours 12 mins; June 13, 2025
Women as Economic Actors: New Sources, Theories, and Methods
42 mins; June 11, 2025
Charles A. O'Reilly, III and Michael L. Tushman, "Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, Second Edition" (Stanford Business Books, 2021)
66 hours 23 mins; June 10, 2025
Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)
75 hours 56 mins; June 07, 2025
Coll Thrush, "Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific" (University of Washington Press, 2025)
32 mins; June 03, 2025
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
66 hours 47 mins; June 03, 2025
Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; June 01, 2025
Joshua K. Wright, ï»ż"The NBA's Global Empire: How the League Became an International Powerhouse" (McFarland, 2025)
72 hours 17 mins; June 01, 2025
John Horn, "Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success" (MIT Press, 2023)
105 hours 13 mins; May 31, 2025
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan" (Duke UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 31, 2025
Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 30, 2025
Xing Hang, "The Port: HĂ  TiĂȘn and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
65 hours 9 mins; May 30, 2025
Charles Hecker, "Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 56 mins; May 29, 2025
Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
47 mins; May 29, 2025
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
55 mins; May 28, 2025
Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
87 hours 49 mins; May 27, 2025
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; May 26, 2025
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
57 mins; May 25, 2025
Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
65 hours 27 mins; May 25, 2025
Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)
77 hours 14 mins; May 24, 2025
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
61 hours 12 mins; May 24, 2025
Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)
61 hours 6 mins; May 23, 2025
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
72 hours 46 mins; May 22, 2025
Selda Altan, "Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; May 21, 2025
Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
58 mins; May 20, 2025
JĂșlia KirĂĄly, "Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Troubles to Global Hurricane" (Springer, 2020)
46 mins; May 19, 2025
False Dawn: A Conversation with George Selgin on Recovering from the Great Depression
60 hours 16 mins; May 18, 2025
Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
59 mins; May 17, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 16, 2025
Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 16 mins; May 16, 2025
Brendan Haug, "Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyƫm" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
59 mins; May 15, 2025
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
35 mins; May 14, 2025
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
49 mins; May 13, 2025
Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)
42 mins; May 12, 2025
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
70 hours 36 mins; May 11, 2025
MaĂŻa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
45 mins; May 10, 2025
Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 28 mins; May 09, 2025
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)
41 mins; May 08, 2025
Jack Copley, "Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
44 mins; May 07, 2025
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
36 mins; May 06, 2025
Laleh Khalili, "Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy" (Profile Books, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; May 05, 2025
Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
51 mins; May 04, 2025
Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
59 mins; May 03, 2025
Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
44 mins; May 02, 2025
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
49 mins; May 01, 2025
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
71 hours 57 mins; April 30, 2025
Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)
81 hours 22 mins; April 29, 2025
Fernando Collantes, "Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; April 28, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
49 mins; April 27, 2025
Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
57 mins; April 26, 2025
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
56 mins; April 24, 2025
Bianca Murillo, "Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2017)
74 hours 48 mins; April 23, 2025
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; April 22, 2025
Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
89 hours 25 mins; April 21, 2025
Enrique C. Ochoa, "MĂ©xico Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
70 hours 28 mins; April 20, 2025
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
64 hours 57 mins; April 19, 2025
Titas Chakraborty, "Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work" (U California Press, 2025)
90 hours 21 mins; April 15, 2025
Colleen A. Dunlavy, "Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S.into a Manufacturing Powerhouse" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; April 13, 2025
StÄle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
54 mins; April 11, 2025
John Kay, "The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong" (Yale UP, 2025)
55 mins; April 10, 2025
Andrew Leigh, "How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity" (Mariner Books, 2024)
14 mins; April 09, 2025
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 08, 2025
Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
59 mins; April 05, 2025
Angus Lockyer, "Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; April 04, 2025
Nathalie Cooke, "Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History" (Reaktion, 2025)
59 mins; April 03, 2025
Stacie A. Kent, "Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 02, 2025
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