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

Bench Ansfield on Arson-for-Profit, Insurance Brownlining, and the Bronx
Published: September 9, 2025
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Kendra Boyd on Black Business and Racial Capitalism during the Great Migration
Published: August 4, 2025
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Trish Kahle on Energy Citizenship and Coal-Fired Democracy in the 20th Century U.S.
Published: July 11, 2025
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Ian Kumekawa on Globalization As Told Through One Ship
Published: June 2, 2025
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Koji Hirata on Steel, Industrialization, and Chinese Socialism
Published: May 2, 2025
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LIVE! @ BHC 2025
Published: April 1, 2025
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Justene Hill Edwards on the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Published: March 5, 2025
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Erik Baker on the Entrepreneurial Century
Published: February 3, 2025
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Mary Bridges on Bankers and the Dawn of American Empire
Published: January 2, 2025
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Seth Rockman on Slavery's Material History
Published: December 2, 2024
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