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Daniel Peris, "The Ownership Dividend: The Coming Paradigm Shift in the U.S. Stock Market" (Routledge, 2024)
52 mins; January 23, 2024
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 23, 2024
Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)
56 mins; January 21, 2024
Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)
54 mins; January 19, 2024
Ajantha Subramanian on "The Caste of Merit" ((EF,JP))
51 mins; January 18, 2024
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; January 17, 2024
Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Gustav Cederlof, "The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba" (U California Press, 2023)
48 mins; January 15, 2024
James W. Cortada, "Inside IBM: Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action" (Columbia Business School, 2023)
68 hours 36 mins; January 14, 2024
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 13, 2024
Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
60 hours 50 mins; January 12, 2024
Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
68 hours 53 mins; January 10, 2024
Katherine Rye Jewell, "Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio" (UNC Press, 2023)
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Gerald Epstein, “What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory? A Policy Critique” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
41 mins; January 09, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; January 07, 2024
Jayaseelan Raj, "Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt" (UCL Press, 2022)
56 mins; January 06, 2024
Klaus Buchenau, "From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption: The Battle Over the Possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Interwar Yugoslavia" (Brill, 2023)
63 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2024
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
38 mins; January 04, 2024
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
39 mins; January 04, 2024
Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance (with Daniel Peris)
67 hours 12 mins; January 04, 2024
Chinmay Tumbe, "The Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World" (Harper Collins, 2020)
49 mins; January 03, 2024
Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
98 hours 20 mins; January 02, 2024
Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
36 mins; January 02, 2024
James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
52 mins; January 01, 2024
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
54 mins; January 01, 2024
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
44 mins; January 01, 2024
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
46 mins; December 31, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
51 mins; December 28, 2023
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, "Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
50 mins; December 28, 2023
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)
44 mins; December 26, 2023
Tamara Venit-Shelton, "Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace" (Yale UP, 2019)
73 hours 38 mins; December 26, 2023
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
77 hours 4 mins; December 26, 2023
Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal" (Harvard UP, 2019)
36 mins; December 26, 2023
Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
54 mins; December 25, 2023
Devrim Adam Yavuz, "Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey: The State, Power, and Big Business" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
61 hours 37 mins; December 23, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
90 hours 41 mins; December 23, 2023
Helen Louise Cowie, "Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; December 21, 2023
Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
46 mins; December 20, 2023
Daniel Campo, "Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons" (Fordham UP, 2023)
37 mins; December 20, 2023
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
66 hours 58 mins; December 19, 2023
Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
58 mins; December 18, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 18, 2023
Randall Hansen, "War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 16, 2023
The Future of Global Economic Governance: A Discussion with Jamie Martin
40 mins; December 16, 2023
Jean Yen-chun Lin, "A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
62 hours 51 mins; December 14, 2023
Niall G MacKenzie et al., "Varieties of Capitalism Over Time" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; December 13, 2023
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
40 mins; December 11, 2023
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman, "Capitalism and the Senses" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
57 mins; December 11, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2023
Fae Dussart, "In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; December 07, 2023
Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)
59 mins; December 05, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; December 04, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023
Lawrence Zhang, "Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China" (Harvard UP, 2023)
59 mins; December 04, 2023
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 39 mins; December 03, 2023
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
80 hours 59 mins; December 02, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 29, 2023
Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)
38 mins; November 26, 2023
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
Sarah E. Stoller, "Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain" (MIT Press, 2023)
40 mins; November 24, 2023
Ruth Dalton, "Living in Houses: A Personal History English Domestic Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2022)
45 mins; November 22, 2023
Economic Enchantments
21 mins; November 22, 2023
Jarmo T. Kotilaine, "Sustainable Prosperity in the Arab Gulf: From Miracle to Method" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 2 mins; November 22, 2023
Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 47 mins; November 21, 2023
Joe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
49 mins; November 20, 2023
Thomas Blake Earle, "The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America" (Cornell UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 19, 2023
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
85 hours 24 mins; November 18, 2023
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2023
Plantationocene
18 mins; November 17, 2023
Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises
44 mins; November 16, 2023
Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
53 mins; November 15, 2023
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
43 mins; November 14, 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, "Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; November 13, 2023
Brendan J. Doherty, "Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
50 mins; November 13, 2023
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
67 hours 17 mins; November 13, 2023
Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
60 hours 12 mins; November 12, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
81 hours 31 mins; November 11, 2023
Daniel Macfarlane, "Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
48 mins; November 11, 2023
Aditya Balasubramanian, "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (Princeton UP, 2023)
100 hours 4 mins; November 11, 2023
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
152 hours 38 mins; November 10, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
47 mins; November 10, 2023
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
51 mins; November 09, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
49 mins; November 09, 2023
Jieh-min Wu, "Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model" (Harvard UP, 2022)
84 hours 21 mins; November 09, 2023
Akram Benjamin, "Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt During the First half of the Twentieth Century" (2019)
32 mins; November 08, 2023
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
61 hours 9 mins; November 08, 2023
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
77 hours 4 mins; November 07, 2023
Vicki Howard, ed., "A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
42 mins; November 07, 2023
Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)
60 hours 59 mins; November 06, 2023
Zeke Faux, "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" (Currency, 2023)
52 mins; November 04, 2023
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
59 mins; November 04, 2023
Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian
65 hours 29 mins; November 03, 2023
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
61 hours 50 mins; November 03, 2023
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40 mins; October 31, 2023
James V. Fenelon, "Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492-1790" (Routledge, 2023)
40 mins; October 28, 2023
Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; October 28, 2023
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 25, 2023
Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth
32 mins; October 20, 2023
Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth
33 mins; October 19, 2023
Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2023
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