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Business Historians in the News: Fall 2018

Business historians in the news recently:

Caitlin Rosenthal discussed her new book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, in an interview entitled "Why Management History Needs To Reckon with Slavery" on HBR Ideacast. Both audio and a transcript of the interview are available.

Kim Phillips-Fein wrote a review essay for The Nation on Capitalism in America: A History, by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge. The article is entitled "Atlas Weeps: Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism."

The podcast "Who Makes Cents" recently published two interviews of interest:
  • Louis Hyman on "The Gig Economy" and his book, Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary; and
  • Gavin Benke, on "Enron and the Neoliberal Era," discussing his book Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism.
In his most recent articles for Bloomberg Opinion, Stephen Mihm discussed the history of non-compete agreements and compared Trump's attitudes toward immigration and a free press to those of John Adams and the Federalists.

Two economic history titles made their way onto the New York Times "100 Notable Books" list for 2018: Adam Winkler's We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights and Adam Tooze's Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

And Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management was named one of the five best books in economics by Diane Coyle for "Five Books."

Lucy Newton wrote about her research (with Victoria Barnes) on "Beards, business and a history of facial hair in the workplace" for "The Conversation."

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