Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast
By Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb
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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.
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Koji Hirata on Steel, Industrialization, and Chinese Socialism
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May 02, 2025 |
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LIVE! @ BHC 2025
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Justene Hill Edwards on the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Erik Baker on the Entrepreneurial Century
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Mary Bridges on Bankers and the Dawn of American Empire
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Seth Rockman on Slavery's Material History
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Andrew Kahrl on Inequality, Theft, and Taxation in Modern America
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Andrew McKevitt on Gun Capitalism
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Rachel Gross on How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Margot Canaday on Queer Workers in Modern America
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Ingleson on the Past and Present of Made in China
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Teresa Ghilarducci on the Past and Future of Retirement
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse on Singapore, Postcolonial Capitalism, and Becoming Global Asia
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May 05, 2024 |
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Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Tim Keogh on Suburban Poverty and the Roots of Postwar Inequality
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Premilla Nadasen on the Care Economy and the Potential for Radical Care
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Hannah Forsyth on the Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Bart Elmore on Southern Companies Remaking our Economy and the Planet
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Joan Flores-Villalobos on How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
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May 04, 2023 |
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Christy Thornton on Mexico, Development, and Governing the Global Economy
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Special Episode on the Military and the Market
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
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May 27, 2022 |
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Keith Wailoo on Racial Marketing and the Rise of Menthol Cigarettes
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Gregg Mitman on Firestone's Rubber Empire in Liberia
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Destin Jenkins on Municipal Debt and Bondholder Power
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Loans and Higher Education
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Justene Hill Edwards on the Slaves Economy and the Limits of Black Capitalism
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Joshua Greenberg on the Rage for Paper Money and Monetary Knowledge in Early America
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Gabriel Winant on the Rusting of 'Steel City, USA' and the Rise of Healthcare
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Cristina Groeger on Education, Labor, and Inequality in Boston
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May 03, 2021 |
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Ronald Schatz on the Labor Board Vets and the Rise of Industrial-Labor Relations
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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Rebecca Marchiel on Redlining, Financial Deregulation, and the Urban Reinvestment Movement
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Katie Hindmarch-Watson on London's Telecommunications Work and Serving a Wired World
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Shennette Garrett-Scott on Black Women in Finance
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Aaron Jakes on Colonial Economism and Egypt's Occupation
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Casey Lurtz on Globalization from the Grounds Up
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Caleb McDaniel on Slavery and Restitution
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Episode 68: Augustine Sedgewick on the Dark Empire of Coffee
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Marcia Chatelain on McDonalds and Black America
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May 01, 2020 |
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Big Changes at Who Makes Cents
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Zach Carter on Keynesianism and COVID-19
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Dara Orenstein on the Economic Geography of Warehouses
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Predatory Inclusion
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Eileen Boris on the Construct of the Woman Worker
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Episode 58: Chris Dietrich on the Energy Crisis and the Anticolonial Elite
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Liz Montegary on the Political Economy of LGBT Families
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers
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May 07, 2019 |
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Bernice Yeung on The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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Juan De Lara on Logistics and Urban Space
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Randy Shaw on the Housing Affordability Crisis
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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Gavin Benke on Enron and the Neoliberal Era
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Louis Hyman on the Rise of the Gig Economy
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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Devin Fergus on the Rise of Financial Fees
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Special Episode on Intersectionality and Capitalism
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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Jennifer Le Zotte on the Sale and Consumption of Second-Hand Clothing
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Jeremy Milloy on the Political Economy of Workplace Violence
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Raj Patel and Jason Moore on Capital, Nature, and Cheap Things
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Jun 02, 2018 |
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Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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May 02, 2018 |
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Malcolm Harris on Millennials and the Economy That Made Them
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Keona Ervin on Black Women's Activism in St. Louis
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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Melinda Cooper on Neoliberal Family Values
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Bryant Simon on the Hamlet Fire and the Politics of Chicken
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Laura Briggs on Reproductive Politics
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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Lane Windham on Union Organizing in the 1970s
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Josh Davis on Activist Business in the 1960s and 1970s
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Steve James on Abacus Bank
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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Emily Hobson on the Gay and Lesbian Left
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Nancy MacLean on the Radical Right and James Buchanan
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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Kim Phillips-Fein on the Fiscal Crisis and Austerity Politics in New York City
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Geoff Mann on the Keynesian Sensibility in a World of Ecological and Economic Inequality
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May 01, 2017 |
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Jennifer Haigh on Fiction and Fracking
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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Ryan Murphy on Flight Attendant Activism
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Mar 05, 2017 |
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Mehrsa Baradaran on Banking for Lower Income Americans
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Christy Chapin on the Centrality of Insurance Companies to American Health Care
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Sarah Jaffe on Social Movements and the 2008 Recession
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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LaShawn Harris on Black Women and the Informal Economy
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Oct 01, 2016 |
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Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Daniel Amsterdam on the Business Campaign to Expand Government Spending
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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David Harvey on A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Sujani Reddy on Nursing and Empire
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Sherene Seikaly on Economic Thought in British Mandate Palestine
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May 02, 2016 |
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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Eric Rauchway on How FDR and Keynes Ended the Depression
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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Leigh Claire La Berge on Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s
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Jan 01, 2016 |
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Jennifer Mittelstadt on the Rise of the Military Welfare State
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Dec 02, 2015 |
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Mike Elk on Media Workers Unite
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Nov 01, 2015 |
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Phil Tiemeyer on Male Flight Attendants and Sexuality in the Workplace
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Sep 01, 2015 |
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Live Show: Who Makes Cents with Belabored
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Aug 01, 2015 |
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Suzanna Reiss on Drug Control, Coca-Cola, and Pharmaceuticals
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Jenifer Van Vleck on Empire of the Air
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Jun 03, 2015 |
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Deb Cowen on the Deadly Life of Logistics
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May 01, 2015 |
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Kim Phillips-Fein on the businessmen's crusade against the New Deal
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Apr 01, 2015 |
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Thomas Palley on the Fed and Shared Prosperity
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Mar 01, 2015 |
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Christina Hanhardt on Gay Neighborhoods and Violence
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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Ellie Shermer on Local Elites Creating a “Good Business Climate”
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Dec 05, 2014 |
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Andrew Needham on electricity and the Southwest
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Nov 03, 2014 |
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N.D.B. Connolly on Race and Real Estate in Miami
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Sep 03, 2014 |
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David Huyssen on Progressive Era Cross-Class Encounters
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Aug 01, 2014 |
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Sarah Nicolazzo on 18th Century Vagrancy
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Jul 02, 2014 |
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Julia Ott on the History of Widespread Stock Ownership
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Jun 02, 2014 |
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Louis Hyman on the History of Consumer Credit
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May 01, 2014 |