Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

A History podcast by Jessica Levy

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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast is a monthly program devoted to bringing you quality, engaging stories that explain how capitalism has changed over time. We interview historians and social and cultural critics about capitalism’s past, highlighting the political and economic changes that have created the present. Each episode gives voice to the people who have shaped capitalism – by making the rules or by breaking them, by creating economic structures or by resisting them.

Recent Episodes

Dylan Gottlieb on Yuppies, Financialization, and the New Inequality
Published: June 2, 2026
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Justin Leroy on the Lowest Freedom, Racial Capitalism, and Abolition Democracy
Published: May 13, 2026
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Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on Muskism
Published: April 1, 2026
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Jessica Levy on the Strange Career of Black Empowerment
Published: March 4, 2026
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Sean Vanatta Joins for a Banking Mega-Pod
Published: February 2, 2026
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Sven Beckert on a Global History of Capitalism
Published: January 4, 2026
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Mike Glass on the Surprisingly Precarious Postwar Suburbs
Published: December 9, 2025
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Rudi Batzell on Racialized Working-Class Politics in the U.S. and British Empires
Published: November 5, 2025
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Leigh Claire La Berge on Why Capitalism Might Be A Joke
Published: October 1, 2025
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Bench Ansfield on Arson-for-Profit, Insurance Brownlining, and the Bronx
Published: September 9, 2025
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