New Books in Economic and Business History
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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
Bradford A. Bouley, "The Barberini Butchers: Meat, Murder, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
Jul 18, 202649 min
Laura B. McGrath, "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 18, 20261h 3m
Paul Stangl, "San Francisco Seafood: A History from Ocean to Table" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jul 17, 20261h 4m
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
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
Jul 16, 20261h 0m
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
Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz
Jul 9, 20261h 3m
A. G. Hopkins, "The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 9, 202654 min
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
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience" (Johns Hopkins UP, 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
Gajendran Ayyathurai, "Tamil Buddhism and Brahminism in Modern India: Deep Resistance Against Caste" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 4, 20261h 36m
Tyler Girard, "Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Jul 4, 202639 min
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
Alan Brender, "Pink Tsunami: The Hello Kitty Kawaii Wave that has Swept the World" (Headpress, 2026)
Jul 1, 202657 min
Jonathan Schneer, "Nine Days in May: The General Strike Of 1926" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 20261h 15m
Kate Bayliss, "Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Jul 1, 202648 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
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
Jason S. Spicer, "Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 24, 202638 min