Business History

Business History appears in How we got free agents in baseball as the podcast by Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith from which the Planet Money episode’s Curt Flood story comes. The source positions Business History as a way to use familiar institutions, such as Major League Baseball, to explain business, labor, and market structure.

Connections

• Jacob Goldstein, Robert Smith, Planet Money, and NPR - podcast and media context.
• Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, Baseball Reserve Clause, and Baseball Free Agency - source story carried by the episode.