Interviews with scholars of the economic and business history about their new books
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume c
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangela
Unlike a flood or fire, a the Farming Crisis of the 1980s did not have a set beginning of ending. Ra
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the n
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and wri
After reading David Chaffetz’s newest book, you’d think that the horse–not oil–has been humanity’s m
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin A
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality
In Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy (Cornell Univers
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some o
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynth
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a sli
We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Tec
This is part #3 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast mini-series that re-examines the leg
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have re
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York Stat
