Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 59
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finan…
2 years ago
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 58
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that t…
2 years ago
Eric Helleiner, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 231
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History (Cornell UP, 2021) helps ma…
2 years ago
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Episode 69
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usu…
2 years ago
Andrew deWaard, "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 139
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old…
2 years ago
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 390
Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is and how it performs its main functions in the co…
2 years ago
Deborah Valenze, "The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 229
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and env…
2 years ago
India Rising: Navigating the Second Cold War in South Asia from Nepal to the Maldives
Episode 10
What is the role of India in the Second Cold War (SCW) in South Asia? How do local histories, internal politics, and subnational dynamics shape relat…
2 years ago
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 489
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Professo…
2 years ago
Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry" (Regnery History, 2024)
Episode 278
When U.S. presidents clash with corporate titans, what tips the balance of power?
In The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in C…
2 years ago