Louis Hyman
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Louis Roland Hyman (born 1977) is an American writer and economic historian. He is currently the Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History at Johns Hopkins University and a professor at Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute.[1] Previously he was the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.
Education
[edit]After growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended McDonogh School, Hyman attended Columbia University in New York City. He graduated with a BA in history and mathematics.
Hyman was a 1999–2000 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Toronto, during which time he studied Canadian history.[2]
In 2007, Hyman earned a PhD in American history from Harvard University.
Career
[edit]Hyman revised his doctoral dissertation into a book during a fellowship at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The result, titled Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.[3] Choice named it one of the top 25 "Outstanding Academic Titles" for 2011.[4]
Hyman has served as a consultant for global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.[5] His writings have appeared in such publications as Enterprise & Society,[6] Reviews in American History,[7] CNBC,[8] Wilson Quarterly,[9] and the New York Times.[5][10]
His second book, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, which explained how American culture shaped finance and vice versa, was published in 2012.[11]
After spending time as a lecturer at Harvard,[12] Hyman now works at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.[13] He continues to conduct research on the history of American capitalism. He also teaches an EdX massive open online course (MOOC) called American Capitalism: A History.
Personal life
[edit]Hyman is married to the novelist Katherine Howe.[14] His mother, Patty Kuzbida, is a retired laboratory technician and outsider artist whose works have been collected in the American Visionary Art Museum.[15][16]
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)
- Borrow: The American Way of Debt (2012)
- American Capitalism: A Reader (2014) with Edward E. Baptist
- Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power (2017) with Joseph Tohill
- Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security (2018)
Articles
[edit]- "The Original Subprime Crisis." The New York Times. December 26, 2007.
- "Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America." Enterprise & Society, Volume 9, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 614–618.
- "The Architecture of New Deal Capitalism." Reviews in American History, Volume 37, Number 1, March 2009, pp. 93–100.
- "Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt: The Political Economy of Race, Gender, and Credit Access in the 1960s and 1970s." Enterprise & Society, Volume 12, Number 1, March 2011, pp. 200–232.
- "Laid Flat by Layaway." The New York Times. October 11, 2011. A23.
Chapters
[edit]- "American Debt, Global Capital." The Shock of the Global. Harvard University Press. (2010)
- "Rethinking the Corporation." What's Good for Business: Business in Postwar: Business and Politics in Postwar America. Oxford University Press. (2012)
References
[edit]- ^ "Louis R. Hyman". History. January 9, 2024. Retrieved July 19, 2024.
- ^ "Program Resources – U.S. Student Grantees". Us.Fulbrightonline.Org. Archived from the original on July 31, 2007. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ Hyman, L.: Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink. Press.princeton.edu. January 24, 2012. ISBN 9780691156163. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ "Choice Reviews Online". Cro2.org. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ a b "Biography". Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ Hyman, Louis (2008). "Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America". Enterprise & Society. 9 (4): 614–618. doi:10.1093/es/khn083. Project MUSE 255462.
- ^ "Publications". Archived from the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ CNBC
- ^ "The Wilson Quarterly: The Debt Bomb by Louis Hyman". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ^ Hyman, Louis (October 11, 2011). "Wal-Mart's Layaway Plan". The New York Times.
- ^ "'Borrow' by Louis Hyman: Life and debt".
- ^ Hyman, Louis (October 28, 2012). Debtor Nation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691156163.
- ^ "Louis Hyman".
- ^ "Weddings/Celebrations; Katherine Howe, Louis Hyman". New York Times. June 29, 2003.
- ^ "Patty Kuzbida". AVAM. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ^ "Not Your Average Art Museum". www.arts.gov. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
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