A Correction Podcast

Loren Balhorn is a contributing editor at Jacobin and co-editor, together with Bhaskar Sunkara, of Jacobin: Die Anthologie (Suhrkamp, 2018).

We speak with Joseph F Getzoff about start-up nationalism. Joseph F Getzoff has been in the University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Environment, and Society since 2011. He is currently a PhD candidate. He is also an adjunct instructor at Worcester State University. His field work centered on the Negev/Naqab Desert in Israel. As a cultural geographer, he critically studies the discourses and practices that link nationalism, environment, and development.

We speak with Neil Cummins about inequality and hidden wealth in the UK. Neil Cummins is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research themes are life, love and death. His methods combine economic logic and historical sources with big data analytics. His research papers are available at neilcummins.com

We speak with Pauline Grosjean about how economics can help us understand the origins of ‘masculinity norms’. Pauline Grosjean is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

We speak with Frank Andre Guridy about sports stadiums and contested space. Frank Andre Guridy teaches history and African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the high point of the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements.

We talk with Sascha O. Becker about the impact of German division and reunification. Sascha O. Becker is the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England.

We speak with Vasiliki Fouka about the Great Migration, civil rights and immigration. Vasiliki Fouka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests are in cultural economics, economic history and political economy. She has studied immigrant assimilation, the dynamics of ethnic identity, and the formation of attitudes towards out-groups, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

African American family from the rural South arriving in Chicago, 1922.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library (1168439)

We discuss the history (and potential future) of social democracy with Nicola Mastrorocco. Nicola Mastrorocco is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He is also affiliated at the Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit, the Political Economy and Political Science Group of the London School of Economics and at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.

We discuss The Irishman and the Frankfurt School’s theory of the “racket society” with Martin Jay. Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination (1973 and 1996); Marxism and Totality (1984); Adorno (1984); Permanent Exiles (1985); Fin-de-Siècle Socialism (1989); Force Fields (1993): Downcast Eyes (1993); Cultural Semantics (1998); Refractions of Violence (2003); La Crisis de la experiencia en la era postsubjetiva, ed. Eduardo Sabrovsky (2003); Songs of Experience (2004); The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying In Politics (2010), Essays from the Edge (2011), Kracauer: l’Exilé (2014) and Reason After its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (2016). Verso will publish Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations in July.

We find out what happened when Sweden introduced electricity in early 20th century. Kerstin Enflo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Her research focus on long-run regional and industrial growth as well as local labor markets. She has conducted analysis to assess the role of natural resources, the extent of the market, agglomeration economies, technical change and regional convergence. She is specifically interested in the role of historical place-based policies, such as infrastructure investments. She is also interested in the long-term evolution of regional inequality and has constructed regional GDPs per capita that go back to the 16th century.