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Bored and Ambitious — 124 episodes · page 2 of 2
Early North America Economics: The Colonies that Paid (Ep. 24)
The English Feudal System: From Conquest to Common Law (Ep. 23)
The Dot-Com Bubble: Speculative Mania and Technological Transformation (Ep. 22)
Industrial Revolution: The Great Transformation of Human Economic Existence (Ep. 21)
Switzerland: The Architecture of Permanent Neutrality (Ep. 20)
Smallpox: The Only Disease Humanity Ever Killed (Ep. 20)
Holy Roman Empire: Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire (Ep. 18)
The Haber-Bosch Process: The Invention That Feeds Half of Humanity (Ep. 17)
The Transistor: The Tiny Switch that Built Tomorrow (Ep. 16)
Standard Oil: The Octopus (Ep. 15)
The Irish Famine, 1845-1852: Free Market Ideology Gone Wrong (Ep. 14)
The Discovery of Anesthesia, 1842-1848: How Humanity Learned to Turn Off Suffering (Ep. 13)
Congo Free State, 1885-1908: How One Man's Private Colony Killed Ten Million People (Ep. 12)
Code and Contract: The Hidden Unity of Law and Software (Ep. 11)
The Spice Trade, 1400-1800: How the Hunt for Flavor Built the First Global Economy (Ep. 10)
The Panama Canal, 1879-1999: The Ditch That Split a Continent (Ep. 09)
Venetian Republic, 421-1797: The Floating Empire that Invented Modern Capitalism (Ep. 08)
The Rothschilds: The First Family of Finance (Ep. 07)
JPMorgan Chase, 1907-Present: From Morgan to JPMC (Ep. 06)
China, 1839-1976: The Century of Humiliation (Ep. 05)
The British East India Company: The Corporation That Ate the World (Ep. 04)
GSIB AI Governance: The Five Layer Stack (Ep. 03)
James Cook: The Man Who Mapped the World (Ep. 02)
Founding NYC: The Merchant Island (Ep. 01)