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The Economic and Political History Podcast

The Economic and Political History Podcast delves into the intersection of economics, political science, and history. Join us as we introduce you to the world"s most influential economists, political scientists, and historians, engaging in informal and insightful conversations about their careers and latest work. Our aim is to bring their expertise to a wider audience through new media, exploring cutting-edge ideas and the implications of their latest books. Tune in to stay informed and inspired by

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00:49:49

Political Conflict in the History of France | Julia...

The Economic and Political History Podcast ·

2025/11/01

Interview with Julia Cagé, co-author with Thomas Piketty of 'A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789–2022'Who votes for whom and why? Cagé and Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic and political development.Cagé and Piketty argue that today’s tripartite division of French political

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00:56:56

The Roman Economy: The lives of the 90% | Kimberly...

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2025/10/04

Interview with Kim Bowes, author of 'Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent'The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how

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00:46:16

A History of Women in International Thought |...

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2025/09/06

Interview with Patricia Owens, author of 'Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men'The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects

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01:02:03

How Horses Shaped Human History | William T. Taylor...

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2025/08/10

Interview with William T. Taylor, author of 'Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History'From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse's origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the invention of horse-drawn transportation and the explosive shift to

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00:44:33

The Economics of Prehistory | Ola Olsson with Javier...

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2025/07/12

Interview with Ola Olsson, author of 'Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory'This book offers an accessible introduction to the economics of prehistory, tracing human economic development from early hunter-gatherer societies to the rise of agriculture and the first states. It explores how human capital, social norms, technology, and environmental factors shaped early economic growth and addresses the origins of modern issues such as inequality and environmental

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00:42:54

Making Money in the Early Middle Ages | Rory Naismith...

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2025/03/22

Interview with Rory Naismith, author of 'Making Money in the Early Middle Ages'Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, coined money was made and used throughout early medieval Europe. It was, he argues, a powerful tool for articulating people’s

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00:48:24

War and State Formation in Latin America | Luis...

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2025/03/08

Interview with Luis Schenoni, author of 'Bringing War Back In. Victory, defeat, and the state in nineteenth-century Latin America'Since Charles Tilly’s claim that “war made the state,” scholars have viewed the bellicist account of state formation through a European lens. In Europe, war drove rulers to tax, conscript, and build bureaucracies, culminating in powerful states. Yet Latin America's wars were thought to be too infrequent and externally financed to foster state capacity

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01:04:56

Post-World War II Population Transfers | Volha...

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2024/12/21

Interview with Volha Charnysh, author of 'Uprooted. How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe'In Uprooted, Volha Charnysh offers a new perspective on the developmental impacts of mass displacement, emphasizing that integrating displaced populations can strengthen states and boost local economies. Focusing on post-WWII Poland and West Germany, Charnysh demonstrates how the disruption of social ties and the introduction of cultural diversity initially reduced social cohesion but

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00:57:42

A 4000-year history of the West | Josephine Quinn...

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2024/12/01

Interview with Josephine Quinn, author of 'How the World Made the West: A 4000 Year History'In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the “civilizational thinking” regarding the origins of Western culture—that is, the idea that civilizations arose separately and distinctly from one another. Rather, she locates the roots of the modern West in everything from the law codes of Babylon, Assyrian irrigation, and the Phoenician art of sail to

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00:45:35

The Rise of Mass Education: Teaching us to Obey |...

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2024/11/17

Interview with Agustina Paglayan, author of 'Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education'Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? In Raised to Obey, Agustina Paglayan offers an unsettling answer. The introduction of broadly accessible primary education was not mainly a response to industrialization, or fueled by democratic ideals, or even aimed at eradicating illiteracy

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00:52:51

Empire & Sex: America's Global War on Prostitution |...

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2024/11/02

Interview with Eva Payne, author of 'Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution'Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. Empire of

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00:58:02

A New History of Inequality | Daniel Waldenström with...

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2024/10/18

Interview with Daniel Waldenström, author of 'Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West'.Using cutting-edge research and new, sometimes surprising, data, Waldenström shows that what stands out since the late 1800s is a massive rise in the size of the middle class and its share of society’s total wealth. Unfettered capitalism, it seems, doesn’t have to lead to boundless inequality. The key to progress was political and institutional change that enabled citizens to become educated,

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00:55:39

A History of American Foreign Policy | Dale Copeland...

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2024/10/05

Interview with Dale C. Copeland, author of 'A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China'When the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself confronting not just Russia in Europe but China in the Indo-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. Shedding new light on how trade both reduces and increases the risks of international crisis, A World Safe for Commerce traces how, since

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00:58:03

Our Obsession with Human Origins: Inventing...

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2024/05/25

Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos, author of 'The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins'Books about humanity's origins captivate readers, while news outlets eagerly cover archaeological discoveries, reflecting a long-standing fascination with prehistory. In "The Invention of Prehistory," historian Stefanos Geroulanos explores how Enlightenment-era thinkers began to consider a human past beyond recorded history, moving away from

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00:34:32

The American Presidency | Brandice Canes-Wrone in The...

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2024/05/18

I'm thrilled to share with you an episode from a new show called The Civic Agora. This venture is part of the Stanford Civics Initiative, where we explore the essence of citizenship and unravel the threads of thought that construct a flourishing society. In this episode of the Civic Agora, we chat with Brandice Canes-Wrone. She is a professor in the political science department and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. She is also the director of the Center for Revitalizing

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00:53:18

The Global Economy Since 1850 | Christopher Meissner...

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2024/05/11

Interview with Christopher M. Meissner, author of 'One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850' This book provides a brief introduction to the economic history of globalization since 1850. Key indicators, such as trade-to-production ratios, global foreign assets relative to world production, and the share of foreign-born in the population, are tracked over time. All globalization indicators rose between 1850 and 1914, during the first wave of globalization. From 1918 to 1939, the

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00:40:21

Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies |...

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2024/04/24

Interview with Faisal Ahmed, author of 'Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies'Tragically, dictatorship and civil strife are prevalent in many contemporary Muslim-majority (hereon, Muslim) societies; characteristics that are detrimental to socio-economic development. In Conquest and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies, I offer an original explanation for why. The book is grounded in a positive

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01:07:19

The Collapse of the Late Bronze Age and its Aftermath...

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2024/03/16

Interview with Eric H. Cline, author of '1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed' and 'After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations'At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and

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00:53:21

Inequality: A History of Ideas | Branko Milanovic...

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2024/03/01

Interview with Branko Milanovic, author of 'Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War'“How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?” That is the question Branko Milanovic imagines posing to six of history's most influential economists: François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets. Probing their works in the context of their lives, he charts the evolution of

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01:00:45

A History of Wars | Michael Mann with Javier Mejia

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2024/02/18

Interview with Michael Mann, author of 'On Wars'Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results. Mann examines the history of

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