Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inve
Hilton Judin's book Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital
Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre. In Belonging and Betra
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi talks about the idea of debt, mainly with respect to the book by David Graeber
Diana Garvin’s Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work (U Toronto Press, 2022) is an expa
In Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University o
To say that World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation (Cambridg
In The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (Duke UP, 2021) Jonathan Beller fo
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitate
In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Origin
Today we talk to Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon about Wasteland with Words (Reaktion, 2010) and about micr
In 2015, Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton University and his wife Professor Anne Case published a
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor mov
Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Y
Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy H
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism–– a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced t
Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concen
In The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London (Bloomsbury, 2020), historian Jessic
