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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast is a monthly program devoted to bringing you quality, engaging stories that explain how capitalism has changed over time. We interview histo...
For those in the Global North, the twentieth century was the Fordist century—an era of mass production and mass consumption. But as Quinn Sl...
Today, we welcome Jessica Levy, co-host of Who Makes Cents , onto the program—not as an interviewer, but as a guest. She's here to talk abou...
To many, banking remains largely invisible—a hidden circulatory system that allocates capital and credit throughout the economy. If it's wor...
Popular histories tend to locate capitalism's origins in Europe, only later moving outward to other parts of the globe. Not so says historia...
Few historical tableaus are more iconic than the midcentury suburbs of Long Island. I can see it now: rows of identical houses, subsidized b...
This month's episode offers a fresh perspective on an old debate. Jettisoning outdated modes of analysis that emphasize race vs. class, gues...
If you work at a so-called laptop job, there are moments every day when your work feels silly, pointless, absurd, even fake. What if you wro...
Arson - which frequently involves the destruction of property - and business are not typically thought to be compatible. Indeed, there is a...
Take a moment and picture the average person who came North during the Great Migration. Chances are good that you conjured someone who was A...
What do energy consumers owe energy producers? What does it mean to be a citizen in a coal-fired democracy? In this month's episode, guest T...
How do you write the history of something as abstract, as placeless, and as vast as the globalization that has remade our world over the pas...
This month's episode looks at the history of Chinese industrialization by focusing on Anshan Iron and Steel Works or Angang, located in Manc...
It's now been over a decade since the New York Times declared that the history of capitalism was in full swing at American universities. Thi...
In this month's episode Justene Hill Edwards leads listeners on a deep dive into the rise and fall of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Compa...
Back in high school, my social studies teacher—who was, of course, also the football coach—told my class that entrepreneurs were the heroes...
Looking back from our contemporary vantage point, the United States' global capitalist empire looks both omnipresent and inevitable. Much of...
A simple leather shoe. A scratchy shirt made of cotton or wool. A roughly-hewn axe. A leather whip, braided in New Jersey. Southern slavery...
Taxes. Is there anything Americans like to complain about more? This episode takes a deep dive into the U.S. tax system, paying particular a...
450 million. According to our best estimates, that's how many guns there are in the United States. To put that in perspective: if you gave a...
In 2022 and 2023, an estimated 50 million Americans went camping. Many others participated in outdoor recreation activities ranging from mou...
In today's episode, Margot Canaday reveals the not-so-hidden history of LGBT workers in modern America. In the absence of state protections,...
Today, China is the U.S. third largest trading partner and second-largest source of imports. This wasn't always the case. Indeed, in the 197...
When we study capitalism, we usually focus on the active time in people's lives: the moments where things like work, consumption, production...
In this month's episode, co-host Jessica Levy and guest Cheryl Narumi Naruse examine popular narratives surrounding Singapore's "miraculous"...
One recent study found that 81% of businesses in the United States have zero employees. That is, they are run by sole proprietors, working f...
Most scholars would date the origins of neoliberalism to the 1970s, when a range of crises gave rise to new forms of market-oriented governa...
In 2022, roughly one in 10 suburban residents lived in poverty (9.6%), compared to about one in six in primary cities (16.2%), according to...
Today, discussions of care are ubiquitous. From employer-programs promoting self-care to the $800 billion healthcare industry, care forms a...
Are you a professional living and working in an English-speaking country? If so, this episode is for you. Teachers, doctors, nurses, account...
An iced cold Coca-Cola. A cross-country flight on Delta to visit friends. A much-needed medication overnighted via Fed-Ex. Bulk toilet paper...
This month's episode gives a nod to one of the figures in our logo: the construction worker. Our guest, Mark Erlich has worked in the constr...
In this month's episode, guest Chelsea Schields discusses oil refining and intimacy, illuminating the social ties and affective attachments...
When it was completed in 1914, the Panama Canal nearly halved the travel time between the U.S. West Coast and Europe and revolutionized trad...
In this month's episode, Christy Thornton discusses the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on some of the twentieth century's...
This month, we welcomed Jennifer Mittelstadt back to the show, joined by Mark Wilson, to discuss their new edited volume, The Military and t...
In this episode, historian Allan Lumba explores how the United States wielded monetary authority in the colonial Philippines, including the...
This month's episode takes listeners back in time to the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, a time of significant labor unrest. At the ti...
This month's episode picks up on a theme previously explored on the podcast: international finance. Drawing on a broad range of German, Engl...
In this month's episode, Claire Dunning explains how and why non-profits came to play such an important role in U.S. cities after World War...
In this episode, Mircea Raianu traces the rise of the Tata Group, one of India's largest and oldest companies, from its early days involved...
This month's episode centers Samoa, including the Pacific islands comprising the present-day independent country of Samoa and American Samoa...
In 2020, George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as "the best place to buy menthols." Of Black Americans who...
This month's episode takes a deep dive into the history of work and automation in the post-World War II era. It traces the discourse around...
This month's episode focuses on a popular commodity, namely rubber. Despite consuming a large share of the world's rubber supply, the United...
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in and beyond the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' depen...
It is no secret that the United States is facing a crisis with regards to higher education. In this month's episode, historian Elizabeth Tan...
Building on and complicating recent scholarship on slavery and capitalism, Justene Hill Edwards takes listeners on a journey through the sla...
For many Americans, the question--What is a dollar worth?--may sound bizarre, if not redundant. Fluctuating international exchange rates, hi...
Today, healthcare workers account for the largest percentage of U.S. workers. Yet, their power pales in comparison to the unionized industri...
Despite the rising cost of tuition and a recent slump in college enrollment, many Americans continue to look to education to improve their s...