David Kirsch on the Dot Com Bubble and Bust

We chat with historian David Kirsch, Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School, about how to understand the Dot Com bubble and bust of the late 1990s and early 2000s. David both lived through the Dot Com moment as a California resident and is a scholar of technology bubbles, including through his coauthored book, Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation (Stanford University Press, 2019). We talk to him about how to think about past and contemporary bubbles from both personal and professional historical perspectives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member!

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David Kirsch on the Dot Com Bubble and Bust is an episode from New Books in Economics by New Books Network.

This episode is 78:37 long.

This episode was published on Apr 13, 2026.

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