Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (Princeton UP, 2021) is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of
The Salton Sea is a kaleidoscope. To some people, it's a waste land, a place of death only suitable
Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and
What can years of ethnographic engagement with rural Indonesia teach us about capitalism, developmen
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrel
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the cou
Tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and
In Nature′s Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (Polity Press, 2021), Alexander Etkind vie
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, Tricia Starks, takes up th
Following World War II the American government and philanthropic foundations fundamentally remade Am
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Sh
Inspired by Chicago’s successful 1893 World Columbian Exposition, the cities of Portland, Seattle, S
Once you understand that markets require public institutions of governance and regulation in order t
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, sp
Timothy Yang’s A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell 2021) is a
I spoke with Dr. Carlo D’Ippoliti, Professor of Economics at the Department of statistical sciences,
Generous welfare states are losing their key characteristics, not least in Sweden, where privatisati
Today I talked to Thom Hartmann about his new book The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Si
John and Elizabeth continue their conversation with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhage
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn's book Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban Am
