Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In this episode, we discuss a book that will be appealing to a general audience and which helps to b
In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a deca
Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and basic conditions for a creative l
In 1910, the future of California wine looked dim. Beset by crises ranging from earthquakes to insec
In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an investigation into the nature of wealth. Smi
The squatter—defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"—had long been
In this podcast Jakob Feinig introduces his ideas about how and when people's practices and institut
In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal do
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell
We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction
The global war on drugs began some 150 years before US President Richard Nixon launched the current
In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world’s largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.
Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in
Told with great intimacy and compassion, Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press,
Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy.
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in th
Greg Marchildon interviews Charlie Angus, the author of Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of
Edward Chancellor's just published history of interest rates could not be better timed. As the world
As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealog
