New Books in Economic and Business History
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Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jun 24, 202656 min
Rebecca Kosick, "Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press" (Wayne State UP, 2026)
Jun 22, 202646 min
Mesrob Vartavarian, "Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration on South Africa" (Ohio UP, 2026)
Jun 21, 20261h 1m
Anna Calori, "Engineering Global Socialism: Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company" (Indiana UP, 2026)
Jun 19, 202649 min
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 202658 min
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Jun 15, 202651 min
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jun 13, 20261h 15m
Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)
Jun 12, 202635 min
Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 20261h 19m
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 8, 20261h 11m
Eileen Otis, "Walmart: Made in China" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jun 6, 20261h 23m
Witold J. Henisz, "Geostrategy by Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in The New Era of Globalization" (Disruption Books, 2024)
Jun 5, 20261h 9m
In Search of Trustworthy AI
Jun 4, 202631 min
Navigating Landmines at Work: Differences Can Create Value
Jun 4, 202626 min
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Jun 4, 202641 min
What Is Real Transformations’ Mission?
Jun 4, 202611 min
Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)
Jun 3, 202656 min
Timothy Fort and Suneal Bedi, "The Vision of the Firm" (West Academic Publishing, 2025)
Jun 3, 20261h 14m
Kati Curts, "Assembling Religion: The Ford Motor Company and the Transformation of Religion in America" (NYU Press, 2025)
Jun 2, 202651 min
Chloe Chapin, "Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 31, 2026
Charlie Qiuli Xue and Arwen Yingting Chen, "American-Designed Shopping Malls in China" (Hong Kong UP, 2026)
May 30, 202652 min
Kevin Warsh: "What did you have to say in order to get this job?"
May 30, 202647 min
Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
May 29, 202634 min
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
May 25, 20262 min
Daniela Soto-Hernández, "Lithium Extraction in Chile: Ontological, Ecological and Economic Dimensions" (Routledge, 2025)
May 24, 202655 min
Jason S. Spicer, "Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 24, 202638 min
Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)
May 20, 20261h 20m
Alice von Bieberstein, "Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
May 17, 202636 min
Jesper Rangvid, "How Low Interest Rates Change the World: Global Trends Caused by Low Rates and Emerging Factors Shaping the Future of Rates" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 16, 202649 min
Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 20261h 15m
Gordon Simmons, "Mutiny in the Mountains: West Virginia Public Workers, 1969-2019" (PM Press, 2026)
May 15, 202649 min
Photis Lysandrou, "Dollar Dominance: Why It Rules the Global Economy and How to Challenge It" (Policy Press, 2025)
May 13, 202654 min
Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)
May 12, 202637 min
Stephan Meier, "The Employee Advantage: How Putting Workers First Helps Business Thrive" (PublicAffairs, 2024)
May 9, 20261h 7m
Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
May 6, 202641 min
Paul Blustein, "King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency" (Yale UP, 2025)
Apr 30, 202651 min
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Apr 30, 202654 min
Stephen B. Young ed., "Adam Smith and Modern Economics: Reclaiming the Moral High Ground" (de Gruyter, 2026)
Apr 29, 20261h 11m
Mary Lisa Gavenas, "Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay" (Penguin, 2026)
Apr 29, 20261h 4m
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
Apr 28, 202655 min
Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Apr 28, 20261h 4m
Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Apr 27, 20261h 23m
Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
Apr 27, 202639 min
Vanda Krefft, "Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women" (Algonquin Books, 2026)
Apr 24, 202646 min
Eileen G'Sell, "Lipstick" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Apr 20, 202642 min
Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, "Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers" (U California Press, 2026)
Apr 19, 20261h 5m
Andrew W. M. Smith, "Make Cheese Not War: Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in Modern France" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Apr 17, 20261h 3m
Lewis Sage-Passant, "Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 20261h 2m
Ibrahim J. Gedeon and Kyle Murray, "Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced Robotics" (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Apr 16, 20261h 12m
Security and Risk: Challenges for Economy and Business in the Global 20th Century: A Conversation with Marie Huber, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt
Apr 16, 202650 min