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 economy by underwriting home mortgages, the gover...
14 Feb 202145min
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 collect about us. For many, this invasion of privacy ...
4 Jan 202143min
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 St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first an...
2 Des 202034min
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 Economism and the Crisis of Capitalism, Aaron Jakes chall...
2 Nov 202044min
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 shows, it also ignores some things. In From the G...
4 Sep 202048min
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 attention among politicians, business leaders, un...
3 Aug 202040min
Episode 68: Augustine Sedgewick on the Dark Empire of Coffee
Many of us are familiar with the negative health effects of coffee, which include insomnia, nervousness, upset stomach, and increased heart rate. Yet, this hasn't seemed to stop many Americans from re...
2 Jul 202042min
Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated
It will come as little surprise to most listeners that America's metropolitan areas are racially segregated and unequal. While the suburbs surrounding American cities tend to be relatively affluent an...
1 Jun 202044min
