Joshua Greenberg on the Rage for Paper Money and Monetary Knowledge in Early America
For many Americans, the question--What is a dollar worth?--may sound bizarre, if not redundant. Fluctuating international exchange rates, highly volat...
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast
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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast is a monthly program devoted to bringing you quality, engaging stories that explain how capitalism has changed over time. We interview historians and social and cultural critics about capitalism’s past, highlighting the political and economic changes that have created the present. Each episode gives voice to the people who have shaped capitalism – by making the rules or by breaking them, by creating economic structures or by resisting them.
Gabriel Winant on the Rusting of 'Steel City, USA' and the Rise of Healthcare
Today, healthcare workers account for the largest percentage of U.S. workers. Yet, their power pales in comparison to the unionized industrial workfor...
Cristina Groeger on Education, Labor, and Inequality in Boston
Despite the rising cost of tuition and a recent slump in college enrollment, many Americans continue to look to education to improve their social and ...
Ronald Schatz on the Labor Board Vets and the Rise of Industrial-Labor Relations
In this episode, labor historian Ronald Schatz speaks about the National War Labor Board. Recruited by the government to help resolve union-management...
Rebecca Marchiel on Redlining, Financial Deregulation, and the Urban Reinvestment Movement
The history of red-lining is one increasingly well-known within and beyond the academy. In the 1930s, as part of an attempt to shore up the struggling...
Katie Hindmarch-Watson on London's Telecommunications Work and Serving a Wired World
It is common these days to bemoan the amount of personal information companies like Amazon, Facebook, and other modern telecommunications goliaths col...
Shennette Garrett-Scott on Black Women in Finance
In this episode, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the...
Aaron Jakes on Colonial Economism and Egypt's Occupation
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. In Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economi...
Casey Lurtz on Globalization from the Grounds Up
The history of globalization is one that has often been told as a story of elites. There are a number of truths to this narrative. Yet, as Casey Lurtz...
Caleb McDaniel on Slavery and Restitution
Thanks to the work of activists and intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jamelle Bouie, Black peoples’ demand for reparations have garnered growing...