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Episode: Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson, 'Corporate Empire: US Multinational Corporations' Fight for Citizenship Against the New International Economic Order'
Pub date: 2026-10-18

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“What were the capitalists doing? And what were they doing in this international space?”

In this episode of Camericanist, we welcome Dr Elizabeth Ingleson to discuss her latest research into the economic crises of the 1970s, when 77 nations from the Global South advanced a vision for a New International Economic Order (NIEO).

Ingleson examines how US-based multinational corporations responded to this challenge, forming international networks and coalitions to defend their interests and promote an alternative vision of global capitalism.

“I call them anxious capitalists.”

By tracing the strategies, relationships and material practices of these self-proclaimed “corporate citizens,” her research reveals how corporations operated not only as economic institutions, but as political and social actors in the making of neoliberal globalisation.

About our guest

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson joins us this year as Assistant Professor of History of the United States since 1920 (US and the World) at the University of Cambridge.

At the London School of Economics, she was Associate Professor at the International History Department.

She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press, 2024).

Episode credits

Hosted by Megan Renoir (PhD 2026) and Shea Hendry (PhD 2026)

Produced and edited by Daisy Semmler (PhD 2030).

References and further reading

• 09:13 — Gary Gerstle, historian of labour, American politics and capitalism. Relevant works include The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930–1980 (co-edited with Steve Fraser, 1989) and Beyond the New Deal Order (co-edited with Nelson Lichtenstein and Alice O'Connor, 2019).
• 20:37 — Gene E. Bradley, “What Businessmen Need to Know about the Student Left,” Harvard Business Review (September 1968), 50.

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Podcast: Slate Money (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Specter of Puerto Rico’s Debt
Pub date: 2026-10-13

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When Puerto Rico’s debt crisis ballooned into the largest governmental default in U.S. history, Congress stepped in with an unprecedented solution. Felix Salmon is joined by David Skeel, who served as chair on the oversight board that helped the island regain economic stability and detailed the saga of this debt crisis in his book Promise Land. They discuss the ins and outs of government debt, the idea of state bankruptcy, and what lessons can be learned for future legislation.

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Podcast: Gateway to Global China
Episode: Entrapped by E-Commerce
Pub date: 2026-09-28

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Life before e-commerce can feel like a foreign country. For the ‘Chinamaxxing’ crowd, fresh meals and fancy gadgets delivered to your doorstep almost instantly, at astonishingly low prices, are among the country’s top draws. Yet these conveniences come with hidden costs, and China’s path to becoming an e-commerce giant has been far from certain.

How do digital platforms from Alibaba to Didi navigate shifting politics, and how have central and local governments responded to these ventures? Can internet-based businesses liberate and empower, or is the freedom to buy and sell ultimately a form of entrapment? For this episode, Yangyang spoke with business school professor Lizhi Liu and science and technology studies scholar Jack Linzhou Xing about the distinctive trajectories of China’s e-commerce giants, and the promises and pitfalls of the digital economy.

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Podcast: Politics Done Right (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer
Pub date: 2026-09-21

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Public research helps create medicines while private firms develop, market, and price them. UnitedHealth’s growth heightens the urgency of the healthcare-financing debate.

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Podcast: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 103: Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay
Pub date: 2026-09-15

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Jennifer, Çinla, and François are joined by Professor Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay from the University of Lorraine to discuss his work on the intersection of economic methodology and the history of economic thought. Topics include the genealogy of homo economicus, John Rawls's engagement with economic theory, and Richard Musgrave's work on the U.S. tax burden.

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Podcast: IMF Podcasts (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dani Rodrik on Rethinking Development
Pub date: 2026-09-10

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Manufacturing and industrialization have long been the development strategy for many countries in Asia. But while the approach has spurred growth and lifted millions out of poverty, most jobs remain in the untraded services sector. In this podcast, Dani Rodrik says that making employment in traditional, domestic services like food, hospitality, and gig work more productive will lead to a more inclusive growth model. Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and co-directs its Reimagining the Economy program.

Read the article in the IMF's Finance & Development magazine: IMF.org/fandd

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Episode: Ha-Joon Chang on Infant Industry Protection
Pub date: 2026-09-01

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Today's South Korean economy is a far cry from what Ha-Joon Chang was born into. But growing up, he witnessed the remarkable transformation of a largely agrarian society into an industrial powerhouse, albeit under a military dictatorship. In this podcast, the economist and best-selling author describes living through South Korea's "economic miracle" like riding a time machine.

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Podcast: The Story of Money (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?
Pub date: 2026-08-19

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Did you know that the Prophet Mohammed was a caravan trader? He helped arrange convoys of thousands of camels carrying valuable goods across the Arabian desert. And he put his commercial nous to good use. Not only did he found one of the world’s great religions, but also a model of free-market capitalism that Friedrich Hayek would have approved of. That is the claim of this week’s guest, the libertarian economist and author Benedikt Koehler. He tells hosts Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett how Islamic commercial practices were, in his view, eventually copied by medieval Europeans to great effect.

Further reading:

Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism (2014), by Benedikt Koehler

The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2010), by Timur Kuran

Muhammad: Man and Prophet (1995), by Adil Salahi

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Episode: The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need
Pub date: 2026-08-01

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Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Hidden Government Debt
Pub date: 2026-07-29

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Governments can make debt less visible, but they can't make it disappear. In this episode of All Things Policy, Kripa Koshy speaks with Sarthak Pradhan about off-budget borrowing - the incentives that drive it, its implications for public finances and democratic accountability. Drawing on examples from across India, they explore why these liabilities matter and discuss reforms that could bring hidden liabilities back into the public eye.

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