Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey (University of California Press, 2022) i
Today I talked to Carl Rhodes about his book Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging D
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2
Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twen
The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford UP, 2020) examines
In her recent book on the Jewish community of Modena in Italy, Federica Francesconi tells a tale of
Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one si
On this episode I spoke to Dr. Susie Porter, Professor in History and in Gender Studies at the Unive
In Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be (Princeton UP, 2021), Diane Coyle exp
It’s time for The Blues! In Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story (University of Chicago
One of the world's largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable h
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certai
The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion p
In this episode I spoke to Professor Peter Cappelli about his new book The Future of the Office: Wor
When I was a teenager, I spent entirely too much time at the Pontiac Silverdome watching the Detroit
Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner.
Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor s
Nearly a century old, the grand façade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business dist
Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that
In the 1960s and 1970s, New York City was beset by a host of fiscal and social crises wrought by whi
