Andrew McKevitt on Gun Capitalism
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 firearm to every single person in the nation—including babi...
1 Okt 202448min
Rachel Gross on How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
In 2022 and 2023, an estimated 50 million Americans went camping. Many others participated in outdoor recreation activities ranging from mountain-climbing to sailing. According to the U.S. Department ...
2 Sep 202441min
Margot Canaday on Queer Workers in Modern America
In today's episode, Margot Canaday reveals the not-so-hidden history of LGBT workers in modern America. In the absence of state protections, she finds, some employers actually appreciated queer worker...
1 Aug 202451min
Elizabeth Ingleson on the Past and Present of Made in China
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 1970s, when the United States first began trading with communi...
1 Jul 202449min
Teresa Ghilarducci on the Past and Future of Retirement
When we study capitalism, we usually focus on the active time in people's lives: the moments where things like work, consumption, production, trade, accumulation, and exchange all happen. But Teresa G...
3 Jun 202444min
Cheryl Narumi Naruse on Singapore, Postcolonial Capitalism, and Becoming Global Asia
In this month's episode, co-host Jessica Levy and guest Cheryl Narumi Naruse examine popular narratives surrounding Singapore's "miraculous" journey from Third to First world nation, currently ranked ...
5 Mai 202431min
Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
One recent study found that 81% of businesses in the United States have zero employees. That is, they are run by sole proprietors, working for and by themselves, The ideal of self-employment has becom...
2 Apr 202439min
Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
Most scholars would date the origins of neoliberalism to the 1970s, when a range of crises gave rise to new forms of market-oriented governance. But Brent Cebul, our guest on this month's episode, arg...
5 Mar 202445min
