Business History
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It’s the history of business. How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got Thomas Edison tangled up with the electric chair? Did someone murder the guy who invented the movies? Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small and find out what you can learn from those who founded them.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Business History podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The People's Car
A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle
Bernhard Reiger
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The International Jew
William Cameron
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932
David A. Hounshell
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
From a Nickel to a Token: The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA
Andy Sparberg
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Conquering Gotham, A Gilded Age Epic
Jill Jonnes
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The People's Tycoon
Henry Ford and the American Century
Stephen Watt
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Greg Zuckerman
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Jill Jonnes
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
East of Eden
Paul Osborn
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
Paul Fischer
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
1929
A Novel of the Jazz Age
Frederick Turner
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beat the dealer
A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
Edward O. Thorp
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Devil take the hindmost
A History of Financial Speculation
Edward Chancellor
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The grapes of wrath
John Steinbeck
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Well-Paid Slave
Brad Snyder
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Other Side of Change
Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans
Maya Shankar
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The antitrust paradox
A Policy at War With Itself
Robert H. Bork
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
