Amy Offner on *Sorting out the Mixed Economy*
Amy Offner joins us to discuss the contradictions of New Deal liberalism, Colombian developmental statism, and the transnational flow of ideas. There are more continuities between the midcentury momen...
13 Dec 20211h 49min
Andrew Elrod on the Politics of Inflation Control
What's the responsible thing to do if inflation starts to rise? This week we talk with Andrew Elrod, who recently completed a dissertation on the history of wage and price controls in America between ...
10 Dec 20211h 35min
John Shovlin - *Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order*
This week we spoke with John Shovlin about his new book on capitalist international relations between France and Britain during the "second Hundred Years War." Its well-known that uneven commercial de...
30 Aug 20211h 42min
Double Header - Luke Petach on *Spatial Keynesianism* and Daniele Tavani on Secular Stagnation
This week we've brought you a double feature! First we talk to Luke Petach about his article on "Spatial Keynesianism." Macroeconomic policy was, at its inception, methodologically nationalist, and Ke...
2 Aug 20212h 17min
Zachary D Carter on *The Price of Peace*
This week we spoke with Zach Carter about his award-winning book *The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.* Its our most comprehensive episode yet on the Keynesian R...
12 Juli 20212h 4min
David Stein on *Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears*
This week we talked to David Stein about his dissertation, "Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears" and the centrality of full employment to the black freedom struggle. From the 1930s through the 1970s, t...
28 Juni 20211h 22min
Robert Manduca on the Multiple Dimensions of Inequality
For this episode, we stood back to take stock of some Robert's own research on inequality in its all its complexity. Its a multi-dimensional issue, with generational, spatial, racial, national, and ma...
14 Juni 20211h 5min
Nick Foster on "Green Corn Gleaming" or: why Reagan did industrial policy in agriculture
Nick Foster is a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on the Reagan Revolution and the cultural history of finance capitalism. We discuss why Reagan embrace...
12 Apr 20211h 14min
