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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast — 126 episodes
Justin Leroy on the Lowest Freedom, Racial Capitalism, and Abolition Democracy
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on Muskism
Jessica Levy on the Strange Career of Black Empowerment
Sean Vanatta Joins for a Banking Mega-Pod
Sven Beckert on a Global History of Capitalism
Mike Glass on the Surprisingly Precarious Postwar Suburbs
Rudi Batzell on Racialized Working-Class Politics in the U.S. and British Empires
Leigh Claire La Berge on Why Capitalism Might Be A Joke
Bench Ansfield on Arson-for-Profit, Insurance Brownlining, and the Bronx
Kendra Boyd on Black Business and Racial Capitalism during the Great Migration
Trish Kahle on Energy Citizenship and Coal-Fired Democracy in the 20th Century U.S.
Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship
Koji Hirata on Steel, Industrialization, and Chinese Socialism
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Justene Hill Edwards on the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Erik Baker on the Entrepreneurial Century
Mary Bridges on Bankers and the Dawn of American Empire
Seth Rockman on Slavery's Material History
Andrew Kahrl on Inequality, Theft, and Taxation in Modern America
Andrew McKevitt on Gun Capitalism
Rachel Gross on How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
Margot Canaday on Queer Workers in Modern America
Elizabeth Ingleson on the Past and Present of Made in China
Teresa Ghilarducci on the Past and Future of Retirement
Cheryl Narumi Naruse on Singapore, Postcolonial Capitalism, and Becoming Global Asia
Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
Tim Keogh on Suburban Poverty and the Roots of Postwar Inequality
Premilla Nadasen on the Care Economy and the Potential for Radical Care
Hannah Forsyth on the Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World
Bart Elmore on Southern Companies Remaking our Economy and the Planet
Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
Joan Flores-Villalobos on How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
Christy Thornton on Mexico, Development, and Governing the Global Economy
Special Episode on the Military and the Market
Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
Keith Wailoo on Racial Marketing and the Rise of Menthol Cigarettes
Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work
Gregg Mitman on Firestone's Rubber Empire in Liberia
Destin Jenkins on Municipal Debt and Bondholder Power
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Loans and Higher Education
Justene Hill Edwards on the Slaves Economy and the Limits of Black Capitalism
Joshua Greenberg on the Rage for Paper Money and Monetary Knowledge in Early America
Gabriel Winant on the Rusting of 'Steel City, USA' and the Rise of Healthcare
Cristina Groeger on Education, Labor, and Inequality in Boston
Ronald Schatz on the Labor Board Vets and the Rise of Industrial-Labor Relations
Rebecca Marchiel on Redlining, Financial Deregulation, and the Urban Reinvestment Movement
Katie Hindmarch-Watson on London's Telecommunications Work and Serving a Wired World
Shennette Garrett-Scott on Black Women in Finance
Aaron Jakes on Colonial Economism and Egypt's Occupation
Casey Lurtz on Globalization from the Grounds Up
Caleb McDaniel on Slavery and Restitution
Episode 68: Augustine Sedgewick on the Dark Empire of Coffee
Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated
Marcia Chatelain on McDonalds and Black America
Big Changes at Who Makes Cents
Zach Carter on Keynesianism and COVID-19
Dara Orenstein on the Economic Geography of Warehouses
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Predatory Inclusion
Eileen Boris on the Construct of the Woman Worker
Adom Getachew on Anti-colonial Worldmaking
Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism
Episode 58: Chris Dietrich on the Energy Crisis and the Anticolonial Elite
Liz Montegary on the Political Economy of LGBT Families
Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers
Bernice Yeung on The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers
Juan De Lara on Logistics and Urban Space
Randy Shaw on the Housing Affordability Crisis
Gavin Benke on Enron and the Neoliberal Era
Louis Hyman on the Rise of the Gig Economy
Devin Fergus on the Rise of Financial Fees
Special Episode on Intersectionality and Capitalism
Jennifer Le Zotte on the Sale and Consumption of Second-Hand Clothing
Jeremy Milloy on the Political Economy of Workplace Violence
Raj Patel and Jason Moore on Capital, Nature, and Cheap Things
Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Malcolm Harris on Millennials and the Economy That Made Them
Keona Ervin on Black Women's Activism in St. Louis
Melinda Cooper on Neoliberal Family Values
Bryant Simon on the Hamlet Fire and the Politics of Chicken
Laura Briggs on Reproductive Politics
Lane Windham on Union Organizing in the 1970s
Josh Davis on Activist Business in the 1960s and 1970s
Steve James on Abacus Bank
Emily Hobson on the Gay and Lesbian Left
Nancy MacLean on the Radical Right and James Buchanan
Kim Phillips-Fein on the Fiscal Crisis and Austerity Politics in New York City
Geoff Mann on the Keynesian Sensibility in a World of Ecological and Economic Inequality
Jennifer Haigh on Fiction and Fracking
Ryan Murphy on Flight Attendant Activism
Mehrsa Baradaran on Banking for Lower Income Americans
Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
Christy Chapin on the Centrality of Insurance Companies to American Health Care
Sarah Jaffe on Social Movements and the 2008 Recession
LaShawn Harris on Black Women and the Informal Economy
Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
Daniel Amsterdam on the Business Campaign to Expand Government Spending
David Harvey on A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Sujani Reddy on Nursing and Empire
Sherene Seikaly on Economic Thought in British Mandate Palestine
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation
Eric Rauchway on How FDR and Keynes Ended the Depression
Leigh Claire La Berge on Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s
Jennifer Mittelstadt on the Rise of the Military Welfare State
Mike Elk on Media Workers Unite
Phil Tiemeyer on Male Flight Attendants and Sexuality in the Workplace
Live Show: Who Makes Cents with Belabored
Suzanna Reiss on Drug Control, Coca-Cola, and Pharmaceuticals
Jenifer Van Vleck on Empire of the Air
Deb Cowen on the Deadly Life of Logistics
Kim Phillips-Fein on the businessmen's crusade against the New Deal
Thomas Palley on the Fed and Shared Prosperity
Christina Hanhardt on Gay Neighborhoods and Violence
Ellie Shermer on Local Elites Creating a "Good Business Climate"
Andrew Needham on electricity and the Southwest
N.D.B. Connolly on Race and Real Estate in Miami
David Huyssen on Progressive Era Cross-Class Encounters
Sarah Nicolazzo on 18th Century Vagrancy
Julia Ott on the History of Widespread Stock Ownership
Louis Hyman on the History of Consumer Credit