Historian Rebecca Spang on the strange origins of the restaurant
“The dominant vocabulary for talking about restaurants is ‘what food do they serve,what are the good dishes?’ People think that’s the only thing that’s important about restaurants.”
Today on the show we talk with Historian Rebecca Spang, about the origins of restaurants, and what they mean to us t…
Historian Rebecca Spang on the strange origins of the restaurant
“The dominant vocabulary for talking about restaurants is ‘what food do they serve,what are the good dishes?’ People think that’s the only thing that’s important about restaurants.”
Today on the show we talk with Historian Rebecca Spang, about the origins of restaurants, and what they mean to us t…
Writing the History of Money and Monetary Policy
What do the histories of currency and monetary policy tell us about societies at large, political structures, and cultures? Ekaterina Pravilova and Rebecca Spang tackle these questions, respectively, in two important books that examine the history of the Russian ruble from the time of Catherine the…
How Do We Define a Currency?
What is a currency? This turns out to be one of those questions we just kind of skip over because we don't have clear answers to it (and because economists often like to skip over these foundational things). This special episode of the Odd Lots podcast was recorded as part of Princeton University's…
The Origin of Restaurants
According to history professor Rebecca Spang, author of The Invention of the Restaurant, it used to be that going out to eat was not something anyone did by choice, and in 18th Century Paris restaurants weren't about eating at all. It's an intriguing bit of history that Ms. Spang will share.
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Living in revolutionary times
Political revolutions often go hand-in-hand with revolutions in money. Stores of value change, the way we make payments changes, our attitudes to credit change.
According to Rebecca Spang, professor of history at Indiana University, the author of a prize-winning 2015 book called ‘Stuff and Mone…
Living in revolutionary times
Political revolutions often go hand-in-hand with revolutions in money. Stores of value change, the way we make payments changes, our attitudes to credit change.
According to Rebecca Spang, professor of history at Indiana University, the author of a prize-winning 2015 book called ‘Stuff and Mone…
Why the French Revolution was a financial revolution - Part 1
The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money.
In part 1 of our series on the French Revolution, host Robin Wigglesworth explores the revolution’s economic origins with Rebecca Spang, historian and author of Stuff and Money in the…
The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 2
The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money.
In part two of our series on the French Revolution, host Robin Wigglesworth tackles the transformation of France’s monetary system with Rebecca Spang, historian and author of Stuff an…
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