A number of business historians have appeared in the media recently:
With the launch of his new book, Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary (Viking, August 2018 ), Louis Hyman has made numerous press appearances. He wrote an OpEd for the New York Times titled "It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs." He was interviewed by US News and World Report on "The Temp Economy and the Future of Work"; and he can be heard on WBUR's "On Point" discussing "The Origin Story of the Gig Economy." The book itself was the subject of a "Books of the Times" review by Jennifer Szalai.
Caitlin Rosenthal discussed her new book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management (Harvard University Press, August 2018), on NPR's "Marketplace"; she wrote about her research in "How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management" in the Boston Review; and John Griffin highlights her work in the newest issue of Harvard Magazine.
Elon Musk has been on the minds of several business historians these days. David Kirsch and Brent Goldfarb draw on research from their forthcoming book, Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation (Stanford University Press, February 2019) to discuss "Is Elon Musk Taking Tesla into a Dead End?" for Industry Week. And, for the "Tropics of Meta" blog, Gavin Benke reminds us that "Elon Musk's Meltdown Is an Old Story." Benke is the author of Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
W. Patrick McCray urges historians of technology to abandon the notion of "the great white innovator," in "It's Not All Lightbulbs," written for "Aeon" in conjunction with The Maintainers organization.
Regina Blaszczyk, who has written widely as a business historian of fashion and design, most recently (with Ben Wubs) in The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction (Bloomsbury, 2018), was quoted in The Guardian's recent piece on fashion colors and culture.
For his own blog, "The Past Speaks," Andrew Smith shares some thoughts on Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act.
The Copenhagen Business School "Wire" interviews Per Hansen about his recent Business History Review article (linked in full text from the CBS site), co-authored with Anne Magnussen, on "Making Sense of Business and Community in Hollywood Films, 1928-2016."