Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast
Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb
4.8from 120 ratings
- 132
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 120
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast
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.
- Publisher
- Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 May 2014
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 132 episodes have a transcript.
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rebecca Kobrin on How Jewish Immigrants Remade American Banking
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
A.J. Murphy on How the US Military Embraced Business and Managerialism
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Devin Kennedy on Computing and Capitalism
Inside a recent episode
Rebecca Kobrin on How Jewish Immigrants Remade American Banking
Published 2 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So a rigorously historical view. And that's exactly what your book does. Jewish approaches to credit don't come out of nowhere or from the ether or from a genetic inheritance. They are rooted in historical circumstances, specifically Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe. How do Jews forge this distinctive approach to credit that inform their practices once they come to the U.S.? The main point of my book, and there are very few books on American capitalism that spend a whole chapter in Tsarist Russia. I appreciated that. Yes, I think it needed it because I actually argue that many of the ways that East European Jewish businessmen are constructed in the most important thing that they do is they give loans to people without collateral. […]
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- Rebecca Kobrin
- AJ Murphy
- Devin Kennedy
- Danielle Wiggins
- Charles Ponce De Leon
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- 4.8 / 5
- 111 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
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