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New Books in Economic and Business History

New Books in Economic and Business History

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

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1,665 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Economic and Business History has been publishing since 2011, and across the 15 years since has built a catalogue of 1,665 episodes. That works out to over 1500 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 45 min and 1h 5m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 217 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 356 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
1,665
Running
2011–2026 · 15y
Median length
56 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory with Heather Berg (Duke UP, 2026)

Oct 7, 202654 min

Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway with Kelly McKowen (U Toronto Press, 2026)

Oct 7, 202644 min

Valuing Nature at the Ends of the World: Natural Capital and Climate Disaster in Belize with Patrick M. Gallagher (Columbia UP, 2026)

Oct 7, 202650 min

Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values with Julien Mailland (MIT Press, 2026)

Oct 5, 202636 min

Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)

Oct 3, 20261h 4m

Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 with Rebecca Kobrin (Harvard UP, 2026)

Oct 2, 202659 min

Do We Really Need To Choose Between Jobs and the Environment?

Sep 29, 202634 min

Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931 with Edward Baring (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Sep 28, 202648 min

Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System's Last Hurrah with Thomas Schatz (U California Press, 2026)

Sep 25, 20261h 12m

The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul

Sep 25, 20261h 11m

James A Harmon et al., "A Daring Enterprise: The US, Post-Revolutionary Egypt, and a Partnership That Defied the Odds" (American U in Cairo Press, 2026)

Sep 23, 202636 min

Joshua Specht, "Property Values: The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Sep 21, 20261h 1m

Class Struggle and the New York Mets: A Conversation with AM Gittlitz

Sep 18, 202655 min

Billionaire Backlash

Sep 16, 202630 min

Kevin Van Meter and Robert Ovetz eds. "Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: the Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver" (Common Notions, 2026)

Sep 7, 20261h 9m

Autumn Lorimer Linford, "Extra! Extra! A History of America's Girl Newsies" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

Sep 5, 202636 min

Alfie Marcus on How Great Companies Can Rise Again

Sep 4, 20261h 4m

Baruch Fischhoff, "Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Sep 4, 20261h 17m

Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Sep 2, 202640 min

Tom Trier, "Blue Sea, Black Gold, Red Banner: The South Caucasus and Scandinavia, 1880s–1920s" (Northern Illinois UP, 2026)

Aug 30, 20261h 3m
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