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Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast — Episode 44: Malcolm Harris on the Millennial Generation

In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Malcolm Harris explains how economic restructuring and the ideology of human capital helped to create the millennial generation.

David Stein, Betsy Beasley 1 April 2018

<em>Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast</em> — Episode 44: Malcolm Harris on the Millennial Generation

Who Makes Cents is a monthly program, sponsored by Verso Books, devoted to producing engaging stories that explain how capitalism has changed over time. In interviews with historians and social and cultural critics primarily, though not exclusively, focused on U.S. history, the show highlights 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.

Tired of reading endless clickbait articles about which industry millennials are killing today? Our guest Malcolm Harris — author of Kids These Days Human Capital & the Making of Millennials — explains how economic restructuring and the ideology of human capital helped to create the millennial generation — and continue to shape the choices they have in the present.

Listen below or click here to download. 

Betsy A. Beasley is a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. She specializes in urban history, transnational labor, and international business in the twentieth century. Her current book project, Service Capital: Houston and the Making of a Postcolonial Oil Economy, traces Houston-based oilfield services executives who promoted a new ideology of American internationalism that envisioned the U.S. not as a center of manufacturing and production but as a white-collar headquarters serving the world through its provision of expertise. She cohosts and produces Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast with David Stein.

David P. Stein is a Lecturer in the Departments of History and African American Studies at UCLA. He specializes in the interconnections between social movements, public policy, and political economy. His first book, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929–1986, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press. He co-hosts and produces Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast with Betsy Beasley.

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