New Books in Economic and Business History
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Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 22, 202654 min
China Comes to Town: Chinese Investment and Local Politics in the U.S. with Emily Conrad
Aug 21, 202650 min
Claudia Kreklau, "The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910" (Berghahn, 2026)
Aug 20, 202643 min
Nancy Folbre, "Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First" (U California Press, 2026)
Aug 19, 202647 min
Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)
Aug 19, 202659 min
Dan Du, "This World in a Teacup: Credit, Taste, and Power in the U. S.-China Tea Trade, 1784–1911" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Aug 18, 20261h 0m
Máximo Badaró, "Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China" (Berghahn, 2026)
Aug 16, 202651 min
Gregorio Astengo and Davide Spina eds.,"Real Estate: Histories of Architecture and Capital" (gta Verlag, 2026)
Aug 16, 202647 min
Matias E. Margulis, "Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 15, 202654 min
Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Aug 13, 20261h 2m
Marco Pompili, "Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On" (Brill, 2026)
Aug 10, 202657 min
Oli Mould, "Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Aug 9, 202640 min
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 31, 202656 min
Re-Evaluating CX in the AI Era
Jul 30, 202642 min
Robert Lee Maril, "Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
Jul 30, 202635 min
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 29, 202651 min
Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, "Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 20261h 19m
Adam Y. Liu, "Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China's Banking Explosion" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202657 min
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Jul 27, 20261h 24m
David J. Teece and Sohvi Heaton, "Dynamic Universities: How Strategic, Entrepreneurial Leaders Can Strengthen Higher Education" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Jul 26, 20261h 8m
Samantha Iyer, "Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 25, 202646 min
Samuel Moyn, "Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It" (FSG, 2026)
Jul 25, 20261h 3m
Max H. Bazerman, "Negotiation: The Game Has Changed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jul 24, 20261h 10m
Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jul 22, 20261h 0m
Timothy Mitchell, "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow" (Verso, 2026)
Jul 21, 20261h 0m
Brendan Greeley, "The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money" (Crown, 2026)
Jul 20, 20261h 21m
J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, "Against Money" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 19, 20261h 12m
Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 3m
Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Jul 18, 202649 min
Paul Stangl, "San Francisco Seafood: A History from Ocean to Table" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jul 17, 20261h 4m
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
Jul 16, 20261h 0m
Matthew Campbell, "The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy" (Penguin, 2026)
Jul 16, 202639 min
Nelson Lichtenstein on Clinton and Neoliberalism
Jul 13, 20261h 15m
Amélie Junqua and Geoffrey Day, "Too Good to Waste: Recycling Paper in the Eighteenth Century" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
Jul 11, 202637 min
A. G. Hopkins, "The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 9, 202654 min
Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz
Jul 9, 20261h 3m
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
Jul 8, 20261h 10m
Gregg Andrews, "Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America’s Hometown, 1890–1970" (LSU Press, 2026)
Jul 8, 20261h 10m
Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)
Jul 7, 20261h 21m
Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 6, 202643 min
Paul Osterman, "Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Jul 5, 202654 min
Tyler Girard, "Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jul 4, 202639 min
Gajendran Ayyathurai, "Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India: Deep Resistance Against Caste" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 4, 20261h 36m
Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Jul 3, 20261h 7m
Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 202648 min
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 20261h 15m
Alan Brender, "Pink Tsunami: The Hello Kitty Kawaii Wave that has Swept the World" (Headpress, 2026)
Jul 1, 202657 min
Juxuan Zhang and Pierre-Yves Donzé, "Entrepreneurs and the Structural Transformation of the Chinese Apparel Industry, 1980–2020" (Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, 2026)
Jun 29, 202632 min
Dallas Liddle, "News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jun 29, 202652 min
Global Enterprise in Australia: International Business Down Under since Federation
Jun 29, 202644 min