For this first episode of the Conversations on New Histories of Capitalism Podcast, we spoke with political theorist Jessica Whyte (University of New South Wales) about human rights and neoliberalism, the morals of the market and on how to integrate the concept of moral economy into the study of the history of capitalism. Chair: Dennis Koelling

In this episode, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) about capitalism without democracy, the relationship between the nation-state and freedom of capital, and neoliberalism’s unlikely alliance with right-wing populism. Chair: Guus Wieman

In this episode we speak with contemporary historian Pierre Eichenberger (Université de Lausanne) about the history of the International Chamber of Commerce, one of the most influential and shadowy NGOs emerging in the 20th century and we touch upon the peculiarities of neoliberalism in Switzerland. Chair: Giorgio Ennas

In this episode we speak with early modern historian Francesca Trivellato (Princeton University) about capitalism’s long historical trajectories, the emergence of ‘new’ histories of capitalism from older historiographies, and the continuities and discontinuities in studying capitalism in the early modern and contemporary world. Chair: Lucile Boucher

In the first episode of our second season, we speak with philosopher and activist Ashley J. Bohrer (University of Notre Dame) about the concept of intersectionality. In her most recent book Marxism and Intersectionality. Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2020), she argues that it is only by considering all of the dimensions of race, gender, sexuality, and class within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand contemporary power relations.

In the second episode of our second season, we speak with historian Ryan Crewe (University of Colorado, Denver) about the role of the politics and economics of religion in the colonization of Latin America.

In the opening episode of season three, we speak with Professor Bas van Bavel (Utrecht University) about the historical relationship between capitalism and institutions, and their meaning for open societies. Explaining the rise of market economies and societies based on equal access as a cyclical process, this discussion explores the long-term interactions between the economy and institutions.

In this second episode Doctor Giampaolo Conte (Roma Tre University) is presenting research on the integration of the Ottoman empire into the nineteenth-century capitalist world economy. Starting from the Ottoman example, the discussion elaborates on the centrality of financial reforms for the building of the capitalist world order and emphasizes the importance of reforms for the historiography of capitalism.

In this third episode we talk to Madeleine Dungy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) about the shift from bilateral to multilateral trade rules in the twentieth century under the League of Nations. The episode reflects upon the gradual change of the international economic order and engages with the entangled history of capitalism and intergovernmental organizations.

In the opening episode of season four, we present highlights from the first day of an interdisciplinary conference held at the European University Institute in December 2022. Includes excerpts from a keynote speech by Daniel Markovits on the idea of growth, as well as presentations from sessions entitled ‘Contesting Extraction and Exploitation’, ‘Data and Property in Information Capitalism’, and ‘Contractual Considerations and Global Supply Chains’. Tommaso Fia: Opening Remarks (1:49) Daniel Markovits: Keynote Speech (6:10) Contesting Extraction and Exploitation Chair: Ian J. Murray Margot E. Salomon: Radical Legal Positivism (12:28) Inês Lameiras Azevedo: Sustainable, Socially Just, and Affordable Housing? (15:10) Data and Property in Informational Capitalism Chair: Tommaso Fia Julie E. Cohen: Commodifying Use Value(s) (18:35) Beatriz Botero Arcila and Teodora Groza: Data, Markets and the Law (22:21) Linus Hoffman: Commodification Beyond Data (26:06) Charlotte Ducuing: The Recognition of Data as Regulatory Subject-Matter (30:16) Contractual Considerations and Global Supply Chains Chair: Ian J. Murray Kish Parella: Contracting as Habituation (36:57) Mirthe Jiwa: On Commodification Beyond the Bounds of the Racial and Sexual Contract (42:08) Rocco Alessio Albanese: Public Services Beyond State and Market (46:25) Klaas Eller: Beyond the ‘Market for Virtue’ (51:14)