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S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0
Season 7 Episode 7
S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0
After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political stripe agree that the economy is “rigged” in favor of corpora…
1 year, 10 months ago
S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years
Season 7 Episode 6
How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led to a better kind of capitalism – if you think prosperity bei…
1 year, 10 months ago
S7 E5: A New Thing in Human History
Season 7 Episode 5
An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to a surge in material wealth like the wor…
1 year, 10 months ago
S7 E4: Invisible Hand Guy?
Season 7 Episode 4
Economic change happens in a cultural context. We trace the tectonic shifts in the Western mind that made capitalism thinkable – in part through a lo…
1 year, 10 months ago
S7 E3: Ships, Swords, and Fences
Season 7 Episode 3
From the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama to colonial conquest and the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the privatization of land in western Europe: hum…
1 year, 11 months ago
S7 E2: BC: Before Capitalism
Season 7 Episode 2
To fully grasp capitalism, it helps to understand the system it replaced – and the most meaningful differences between feudalism and capitalism. We v…
1 year, 11 months ago
S7 E1: Market Failure
Season 7 Episode 1
Introduction to our 7th season: Capitalism. The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at least half a century. Millions,…
1 year, 11 months ago
Season 7 Trailer: Capitalism
Season 7
Welcome to Season 7: Capitalism. The world's dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn't been for at least half a century. This season tells th…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bonus: Long Shadow, In Guns We Trust
As we get ready to launch our Season 7, a bonus episode from another podcast we think our listeners will want to hear: Long Shadow. Episode 1 of its …
2 years ago
S6 E5: A Way Forward
Season 6 Episode 5
What would it take, and what would it even mean, to heal from a wound like the Wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 — or from centuries of white supr…
2 years, 3 months ago