Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
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
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
