New Books in Economic and Business History

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

Episodes

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What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal st

Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron

Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contempora

In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to provide a detailed acc

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront techn

This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This se

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire de

The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisci

In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing be

Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal e

In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the compl

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society o

In Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank (W. W. Norton, 2024), Justene Hil

Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the p

This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This seas

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequen

A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for

Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market

At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global

What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields