16 May On the New History of Capitalism: the Nineteenth Century Crucible
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041
Participants in this symposium include Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009); Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale, author of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (1996); and John Majewski, UCSB, author of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (2009).
Sponsored by the Critical Issues in America series “The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America, 1964/2014” and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.