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New episode alert! Our latest interview with Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore is now available on the Verso Books blog! Check it out here.
Our newest episode is here on the Verso Books site!
We speak to Mehrsa Baradaran about Black banks and the racial wealth gap.
New episode alert! Our latest episode with Malcolm Harris explores the millennial generation. Check it out here: https://www.versobooks.com/…/3717-who-makes-cents-a-history….
We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Verso Books! You can expect the same great programming from us moving forward. But we’re excited to bring our audience and Verso’s together!
Our newest episode with Keona K. Ervin is here! She speaks to us about her magnificent book about Black women's fight for economic justice in St. Louis.
Our newest episode is now available! Listen to Melinda Cooper discuss how anxiety about the family and morality have always been at the core of neoliberalism.
Happy New Year! We're thrilled to post our 41st episode and continue another year of podcasting.
Here is our new one with Bryant Simon:
Consider the chicken nugget. Many of us can see its round shape in our minds, and recall its salty taste. But what is its history? And what does this history have to tell us about food and capitalism, and about one of the most devastating industrial accidents in recent U.S. history?
...On today’s show, we speak with Bryant Simon about the 1991 fire at a chicken processing factory in Hamlet, North Carolina. For Bryant, this tragic accident has political and economic causes. And it reveals a tremendous about the last few decades of U.S. and global history.
Our fortieth episode is now available! We speak with Laura Briggs about her new book, How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics.
We're thrilled to announce our newest episode with Lane Windham, about her magnificent book on union organizing in the 1970s.
As Lane shows, organizing did not decline in the 70s. Rather, organizers faced increasingly difficult battles as employers broke the law and deployed a host of other tactics to undermine these efforts.
https://whomakescentspodcast.com/…/episode-39-lane-windham…/
Huge congrats to our Episode 35 guest, Nancy MacLean on being a finalist for the National Book Award! http://www.latimes.com/…/la-et-jc-national-book-award-final…
If you've been wondering what to make of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, check out our latest episode! Joshua Clark Davis talks to us about activist entrepreneurs in the 1960s and 1970s and their legacy today.
New episode! We speak to Steve James about his film, Abacus: Small Enough To Jail.
It has become well known that none of those most responsible for the 2008 recession have faced significant prosecutions for their actions. But one bank did face a severe prosecution in the wake of the recession. On today’s show, we speak to Steve James, the director of a new film about Abacus bank—a small bank that serves New York’s Chinatown community, and how they found themselves facing a harsh prosecution, and how they fought back.
https://whomakescentspodcast.com/…/episode-37-steve-james-…/
Your humble co-hosts wrote a piece on podcasting for The American Historian! If you're a member of the OAH, you can download the issue here: http://tah.oah.org/august-2017/. - with David Stein
New Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast alert
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We speak with Emily Hobson about gay and lesbian activists from the 1960s through the 1990s who understood sexuality and anti-capitalism to be inextricably linked!
Our latest episode with Emily Hobson is now available! Listen to Emily discuss the gay and lesbian left and the intersections between "economic" and "social" radicalism. https://whomakescentspodcast.com/…/emily-hobson-on-the-gay…/
Co-host David Stein has written an incredibly important piece explaining why the focus on private prisons can be a distraction in discussions of mass incarceration: "This is not a simple story of corporations serving as puppet master, with police, prosecutors, and legislators from diverse locales and constituencies operating as their willing marionettes. Rather, the politics of law and order have produced a host of constituencies—from public employees like district attorneys and probation officers, to private firms—who seek to maintain punitive politics."
History of capitalism at work! (This is Betsy, it's my turn to brag on my brilliant co-host.)
Check it out!
Dear listeners--we know you're used to hearing about our guests, but we thought you might be interested in some recent work from your hosts:
Bets Beasley recently published a very significant journal article in one of the leading journals in the field--Diplomatic History. (It's David--I'm allowed to brag 
Check it out!
..."Service Learning: Oil, International Education, and Texas’s Corporate Cold War"
https://www.academia.edu/…/Service_Learning_Oil_Internation…
