Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
In this podcast, Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Con
Should you train your kid to become a pro athlete? Why do Koreans dominate women’s golf? Why should
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930 Maritime Competition and Imperial Power (Pal
The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scatt
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to ob
In Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100,000 Years of Human History (Cambridge UP, 202
In Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets (Harper Business, 2022), Brett Scott
A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy's leading cities maintained its influence in an
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fion
In Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900 (Cambridge
Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerg
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new frame
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical powe
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at St
You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. Now, award-winning writer Chris
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on
Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China (Harvard UP, 2021) explor
Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice. It was popularized with the rise of
Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates (Georgetown University Press, 2022) by
