Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb

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.

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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Episodes (124)

Wed Mar 4th Jessica Levy on the Strange Career of Black Empowerment
Feb 2nd Sean Vanatta Joins for a Banking Mega-Pod
Jan 4th Sven Beckert on a Global History of Capitalism

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Mar 4, 2026
43 minutes
59 MB

Today, we welcome Jessica Levy, co-host of Who Makes Cents, onto the program—not as an interviewer, but as a guest. She's here to talk about her remarkable new book, Black Power, Inc: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics. This book traces the strange career of black empowerment: from civil rights protests to the boardroom, and from the streets of urban America to the townships of South Africa. Black empowerment, she reveals, was a protean concept, at once radical and conservative, that allowed different constiutencies to sometimes push for change, and at other times, to...

Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Jessica Levy on the Strange Career of Black Empowerment

Jessica Levy and Dylan Gottlieb

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