New Books in Economic and Business History

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Click on the books below to learn more about some of the best recent scholarship on political economy and the history of capitalism—and to hear my interviews with the authors.

Cover of The China Firm by Thomas Larkin

Cover of the book Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy by Carola Binder

The cover of Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City by Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen

The cover of Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon

The cover of Race and the Greening of Atlanta by Christopher Sellers

The cover of The Toxix Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade

The cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar, styled as a no-parking street sign

The cover of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Manager Own the World by Bretty Christophers, featuring part of a colorful pie chart

The cover of the book US History in 15 Foods by Anna Zeide

The rainbow-colored cover of Palto Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

The cover of Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

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