Reviving Growth Keynesianism

Herman Mark Schwartz on Corporate Strategy

For this episode we talk to Herman Mark Schwartz on a wide range of issues - from biopolitics, industrial policy, and the New Cold War political economy to why "financial

Jamie Martin on *The Meddlers* and Legitimation Machines

Jamie Martin joins us to discuss his new book *The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance.* After the first World War, the tools  that

Eric Monnet on *Controlling Credit*

Eric Monnet joins us to discuss his book *Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948-1973.* Prior to the neoliberalizations of th

Nina Eichacker on Solyndra, Socialism, and Fiscal Space

For this episode, we talk with Nina Eichacker, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island. We discuss her wide ranging work on green industrial po

Christy Thornton on *Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy*

For this episode, Christy Thornton joins us to talk about her book *Revolution in Development.* It tells the story of the revolutionary Mexican state's exclusion fro

Expecting Skanda Amarnath

For this episode, we talk with Skanda Amarnath, executive director of Employ America. We discuss some of the myths about inflation in the 1970s, the forgotten inflation o

Eric Helleiner on *The Neo-Mercantilists: A Global Intellectual History*

Eric Helleiner joins us to discuss his fascinating new global history of neo-mercantilist ideas. In addition to the well-known "Listian Intellectual World" there is a who

Charles Postel on *Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896*

For this episode, we spoke with Charles Postel about his recent book *Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896.* After the Civil War, many social movements in favor of "e

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 continuitie

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

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-k

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, m

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

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

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

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.

Jonathan Levy on *Ages of American Capitalism*

This week we talked to Jon Levy, Professor of US History at the University of Chicago, about his forthcoming book *Ages of American Capitalism.* We asked him what "capita

Liz Cohen on *A Consumer's Republic*

Today's guest is Lizabeth Cohen, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University. We discuss her classic work 

Ariel Ron on the *Grassroots Leviathan*

Today's guest is Ariel Ron, the Glenn M. Linden Assistant Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era History at Southern Methodist University. We discuss his new book Grass

Kaleb Nygaard on the Bankster podcast and the New Bagehot Project

Today's guest is Kaleb Nygaard, host of the Bankster podcast - the best show out there for learning about central bank history - as well as a researcher at the Yale