Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Today I talked to Eric Posner about his book How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford UP, 2021).When ant
Before the craft beer revolution, Coors was a hot commodity. Impossible to find outside a few states
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer tha
The pickup truck is the symbol of rural conservative masculinity. So, it often takes centre stage in
Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world
John Keynes’ book, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, was published in England at the
The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Stored in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of be
In Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2022), Aria
Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery (Luath Press, 2022) by Kate Phillips traces the sto
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
