In this episode, we welcomed Jennifer Mittelstadt back to the show, joined by Mark Wilson, to discuss their new edited volume, The Military and the Market. Moving beyond familiar topics like defense […]

In this episode, Allan E.S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for […]

This month’s episode takes listeners back in time to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of significant labor unrest. At the time, employers, often with government support, went to […]

This month’s episode picks up on a theme previously explored on the podcast: international finance.  Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese, and Chinese sources, Ghassan Moazzin traces […]

If you live in a city in the United States, chances are you’ve encountered one or more non-profit organizations in your community. Maybe you’ve volunteered for a local non-profit serving […]

For those with an interest in international business, particularly, that taking place in and of the global South, the Tata Group is a familiar name. Launching their business in 1868, […]

On June 1, 2022, Samoa, the small Polynesian island country, previously known as Western Samoa and colonized by the Germans, before being placed under joint British and New Zealand colonial […]

Recently, on March 24, 2022, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that it had authorized several tobacco-flavored vaping products made by the Japanese-owned Logic Technology Development, LLC, while denying […]

When you last went grocery shopping, did you use the self-checkout machine as opposed to waiting in line for a cashier? Or when ordering take-out, did you use an app? […]

If you’ve left the house recently—and let’s be honest, most of us aren’t going many places these days—but if you have, you’ve most likely come into contact with this natural […]