@inbook {1158906, title = {Global Capitalist Infrastructure }, booktitle = {Cambridge History of America and the World: The Twentieth Century}, volume = {4}, year = {Forthcoming}, author = {Vanessa Ogle}, editor = {Mark Bradley and David Engerman and Max Paul Friedman and Melani McAlister} } @article {1158905, title = {Time, Temporality, and Capitalism forthcoming }, journal = {Past \& Present}, year = {Forthcoming}, author = {Vanessa Ogle} } @book {1157508, title = {Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {

A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America{\textquoteright}s wealthiest business tycoons.

Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world{\textquoteright}s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films.

Assembling the Dinosaur\ follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America{\textquoteright}s Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.

Tracing the entwined relationship of dinosaurs, capitalism, and culture during the Gilded Age,\ Lukas Rieppel\ reveals the outsized role these giant reptiles played during one of the most consequential periods in American history.

}, url = {http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737587}, author = {Lukas Rieppel} } @article {1161356, title = {Bad Neighbors}, journal = {Boston Review}, year = {2019}, author = {Robin McDowell} } @article {1157511, title = {How Might 21st-Century De-Globalization Unfold? Some Historical Reflections}, journal = {New Global Studies}, volume = {12}, year = {2018}, pages = {343-365}, abstract = {Is the world headed for a repeat of the de-globalization of the interwar period? Stefan Link challenges some widespread assumptions about the history of globalization and suggests that this time really is different.}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs.2018.12.issue-3/ngs-2018-0024/ngs-2018-0024.xml?format=INT}, author = {Stefan Link} } @article {1157510, title = {The Charismatic Corporation: Finance, Administration, and Shop Floor Management under Henry Ford}, journal = {Business History Review}, volume = {92}, year = {2018}, pages = {85-115}, abstract = {After assuming sole ownership of the Ford Motor Company in 1919, Henry Ford transformed his business into a mission-driven organization that prioritized improvements in production and engineering over investment returns. At the same time, the company programmatically rejected bureaucratic management in favor of informal procedures and ingrained collective protocols, both in administration and on the shop floor. This article references Max Weber{\textquoteright}s view of {\textquotedblleft}charismatic{\textquotedblright} authority to explain the company{\textquoteright}s organizational structure, its culture, its ambivalence toward Henry Ford{\textquoteright}s worst tendencies and prejudices, and its resilience during the decline of his leadership in the 1930s and 1940s.}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/charismatic-corporation-finance-administration-and-shop-floor-management-under-henry-ford/BE6F1228C81A5ACB7208076EAA72DBDC}, author = {Stefan Link} } @article {1157945, title = {Corporate Democracy: How Corporations Justified Their Right to Speak in 1970s Boston}, journal = {Law and History Review}, volume = {36}, year = {2018}, author = {Nikolas Bowie} } @book {1157450, title = {Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {

Accounting for Slavery\ is a unique contribution to the decades-long effort to understand New World slavery{\textquoteright}s complex relationship with capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records,\ Caitlin Rosenthal\ explores the development of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments, such as allocating and reallocating labor from crop to crop, planning meals and lodging, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentive strategies they crafted offered rewards but also threatened brutal punishment.

The traditional story of modern management focuses on the factories of England and New England, but Rosenthal demonstrates that investors in West Indian and Southern plantations used complex accounting practices, sometimes before their Northern counterparts. For example, some planters depreciated their human capital decades before the practice was a widely used accounting technique. Contrary to narratives that depict slavery as a barrier to innovation,\ Accounting for Slavery\ explains how elite planters turned their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantage. The brutality of slavery was readily compatible with the development of new quantitative techniques for workforce organization.

By showing the many ways that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage, Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery and illuminates deep parallels between the outlooks of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slaveholders and the ethical dilemmas facing twenty-first-century businesses.

}, url = {http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972094}, author = {Caitlin Rosenthal} } @article {1157509, title = {"Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories"}, journal = {Special Issue of Osiris}, volume = {33}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the {\textquotedblleft}history of capitalism,{\textquotedblright} as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this\ Osirisvolume revisits this classic quandary, foregrounding the entanglements between these two powerful and unruly historical forces and tracing the diverse ways they mutually shaped each other. Key attention is paid to the practices of knowledge work that enable both scientific and capitalistic action and to the diversity of global sites and circuits in which science/capitalism have been performed. The assembled papers excavate an array of tangled nodes at the science/capitalism nexus, spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, from Nevada to Central Asia to Japan, from microbiology to industrial psychology to public health.}, url = {https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo34250784.html}, author = {Lukas Rieppel and William Deringer and Eugenia Lean} } @article {1157447, title = {American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870{\textendash}1950}, journal = {The American Historical Review}, volume = {122}, year = {2017}, pages = {1137{\textendash}1170}, abstract = {During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the {\textquotedblleft}American danger.{\textquotedblright} Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world{\textquoteright}s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations{\textquoteright} declining competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United States, and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and labor into one national economy. This {\textquotedblleft}second great divergence{\textquotedblright} provoked a range of responses, as statesmen, capitalists, and intellectuals advocated for territorial rearrangements of various European economies, a discussion that lasted with greater or lesser intensity from the 1870s to the 1950s. Their sometimes competing and sometimes mutually reinforcing efforts focused on African colonialism, European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that efforts to territorialize capitalist economies delineate a particular moment in the long history of capitalism; and it demonstrates the unsettling effects of the rise of the United States on European powers.}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/122/4/1137/4320241?redirectedFrom=fulltext}, author = {Sven Beckert} } @article {1158904, title = {Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1970s}, journal = {The American Historical Review}, volume = {122}, year = {2017}, pages = {1431-1458}, abstract = {This article traces the emergence of an archipelago-like landscape of distinct legal and economic spaces throughout the long midcentury. Consisting of tax havens, offshore financial markets, flags of convenience, and economic free zones, this archipelago allowed free-market capitalism to flourish on the sidelines of a world increasingly dominated by more sizable and interventionist nation-states. It argues that certain characteristics of the rise of free-market capitalism since the 1970s and 1980s were previously practiced in the offshore archipelago, only to move back to Europe and North America with the rise of neoliberalism.}, author = {Vanessa Ogle} } @book {1157449, title = {The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {How did Americans come to quantify their society{\textquoteright}s progress and well-being in units of money? In today{\textquoteright}s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth.\ The Pricing of Progresstraces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.}, url = {http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976283}, author = {Eli Cook} } @book {1157446, title = {Empire of Cotton: A Global History}, year = {2015}, abstract = {WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award

The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today.
\ \ \ \ \ \ \  In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world{\textquoteright}s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.}, url = {https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/10461/empire-of-cotton-by-sven-beckert/9780375713965/}, author = {Sven Beckert} } @book {1157445, title = {Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange {\textendash} a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself -- along with the rules that structure it, the politics and ideas that shape it, and the benefits that flow from it. One particularly dramatic transformation in money{\textquoteright}s design brought capitalism to England. For centuries, the English government monopolized money{\textquoteright}s creation. The Crown sold people coin for a fee in exchange for silver and gold. {\textquotedblleft}Commodity money{\textquotedblright} was a fragile and difficult medium; the first half of the book considers the kinds of exchange and credit it invited, as well as the politics it engendered. Capitalism arrived when the English reinvented money at the end of the 17th century. When it established the Bank of England, the government shared its monopoly over money creation for the first time with private investors, institutionalizing their self-interest as the pump that would produce the money supply. The second half of the book considers the monetary revolution that brought unprecedented possibilities and problems. The invention of circulating public debt, the breakdown of commodity money, the rise of commercial bank currency, and the coalescence of ideological commitments that came to be identified with the Gold Standard {\textendash} all contributed to the abundant and unstable medium that is modern money. All flowed as well from a collision between the individual incentives and public claims at the heart of the system. The drama had constitutional dimension: money, as its history reveals, is a mode of governance in a material world. That character undermines claims in economics about money{\textquoteright}s neutrality. The monetary design innovated in England would later spread, producing the global architecture of modern money.}, url = {http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198709572.001.0001/acprof-9780198709572}, author = {Christine Desan} } @book {1157507, title = {Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton}, abstract = {

Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did this happen? The first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America,\ Debtor Nation\ traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twentieth century, following its transformation from fringe to mainstream--thanks to federal policy, financial innovation, and retail competition.

How did banks begin making personal loans to consumers during the Great Depression? Why did the government invent mortgage-backed securities? Why was all consumer credit, not just mortgages, tax deductible until 1986? Who invented the credit card? Examining the intersection of government and business in everyday life, Louis Hyman takes the reader behind the scenes of the institutions that made modern lending possible: the halls of Congress, the boardrooms of multinationals, and the back rooms of loan sharks. America{\textquoteright}s newfound indebtedness resulted not from a culture in decline, but from changes in the larger structure of American capitalism that were created, in part, by the choices of the powerful--choices that made lending money to facilitate consumption more profitable than lending to invest in expanded production.

From the origins of car financing to the creation of subprime lending,\ Debtor Nation\ presents a nuanced history of consumer credit practices in the United States and shows how little loans became big business.

}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/Debtor-Nation-History-America-Politics/dp/0691156166/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\&qid=1550267777\&sr=8-1\&keywords=debtor+nation}, author = {Louis Hyman} } @article {1158907, title = {The Epistemology of the Suburbs: Knowledge, Production, and Corporate Laboratory Design}, journal = {Critical Inquiry}, volume = {36}, year = {2010}, pages = {771-806}, author = {William J. Rankin} }