Hosted by Javier Mejia · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 35 episodes
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The Economic and Political History Podcast delves into the intersection of economics, political science, and history. Join us as we introduce you to the world's most influential economists, political scientists, and historians, engaging in informal and insightful conversations about their careers and latest work. Our aim is to bring their expertise to a wider audience through new media, exploring cutting-edge ideas and the implications of their latest books. Tune in to stay informed and inspired by the forefront of academic thought on the key issues shaping our world today.
Javier Mejia hosts The Economic and Political History Podcast, a arts show with 35 episodes published.
How did one of history's greatest moral crimes come to be seen as legitimate? In this episode, I speak with historian John Samuel Harpham about his remarkable new book The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery . Rathe
Interview with Dan Edelstein, author of 'The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin' (Princeton University Press) Rather than telling the story of revolutions themselves, Edelstein traces the e
Interview with Sophia Rosenfeld, author of 'The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life' (Princeton University Press) What does it mean to be free? Today we tend to think freedom means having more choices—more
Interview with Sven Beckert, author of 'Capitalism: A Global History' (Penguin Random House)Rather than treating capitalism as a natural or inevitable system, Beckert traces its emergence over the past millennium—showing
Interview with Jason Jackson, author of 'Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry' (Harvard University Press)We discuss:• Why standard explanations of Indian economic policy fall short• The rise of Indian economic
Interview with Lisa J. Lucero, author of 'Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet' Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet presents the Maya way of seeing and interacting with the world, which embodies lessons and
Interview with Walter Scheidel, author of 'What is Ancient History?'It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinct
Interview with Julia Cagé, co-author with Thomas Piketty of 'A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789–2022' Who votes for whom and why? Cagé and Piketty comb through more than tw
Interview with Kim Bowes, author of 'Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent'The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one
Interview with Patricia Owens, author of 'Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men'The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet wom
Interview with William T. Taylor, author of 'Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History'From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeolog
Interview with Ola Olsson, author of 'Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory'This book offers an accessible introduction to the economics of prehistory, tracing human economic development f
Interview with Rory Naismith, author of 'Making Money in the Early Middle Ages' Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was
Interview with Luis Schenoni, author of 'Bringing War Back In. Victory, defeat, and the state in nineteenth-century Latin America'Since Charles Tilly’s claim that “war made the state,” scholars have viewed the bellicist
Interview with Volha Charnysh, author of 'Uprooted. How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe' In Uprooted , Volha Charnysh offers a new perspective on the developmental impacts of mass displacement, emphasizing t
Interview with Josephine Quinn, author of 'How the World Made the West: A 4000 Year History' In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the “civilizational thinki
Interview with Agustina Paglayan, author of 'Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education' Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide educat
Interview with Eva Payne, author of 'Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution' Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sex
Interview with Daniel Waldenström, author of 'Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West'. Using cutting-edge research and new, sometimes surprising, data, Waldenström shows that what stands out since the
Interview with Dale C. Copeland, author of 'A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China' When the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era o
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