{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Suzanna Reiss on Drug Control, Coca-Cola, and Pharmaceuticals","description":"\r\nToday’s guest discusses the history of the coca leaf and the U.S. drug control regime. Amongst other topics, we discuss the importance of coca to both Coca-Cola and Merck and the pharmaceutical industry. For Suzanna Reiss, this provides a way to interpret the history of capitalism across the mid-twentieth century and after.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nSuzanna Reiss is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawai’i at M\u0101noa. She is author of We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire. You can read more about her work here.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nFor our New York area listeners, we will be having a live conversation with our friends from Dissent Magazine’s Belabored Podcast.\r\n \r\nOn July 7th at 7 PM at 61 Local in Brooklyn (61 Bergen St.) we’ll be speaking with Belabored hosts Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen about the histories of labor and capitalism. \r\n ","author_name":"Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/whomakescentspodcast.com","html":"