The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

Winner of the 2024 Alice Hanson Jones Prize of the Economic History Association. A Foreign Affairs best book of 2023.  Finalist for the George R. Terry Award, Academy of Management.  Finalist for the Hayek Prize, Manhattan Institute.

Read the reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Business History,  EH.Net, and Business History Review.

Podcast interviews at Y CT Matters, KPCW Public Radio, Keen On, Money Life, the New Books Network, the Unleashed podcast, and the unSILOed podcast.

Blog mentions at Marginal Revolution, PUP Ideas, The Authors Corner, Cafe Hayek, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Knowledge Problem, and UConn Today.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Eli Heckscher Lecture in Stockholm
    On September 26, 2024, I was honored to deliver the Eli Heckscher Memorial Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics. I talked on the the theme of the American corporation in the twentieth cenury. The Heckscher lecture has been given anually since 2003 by a list of distinguished economists, including two Nobel Laureates. It is […]
  • Janus Lecture at Brown
    I was pleased to be part of the Janus Forum Lecture Series at Brown University this past Wednesday, April 3.  The topic was the regulation of Big Tech industries, and I was in conversation with Tim Wu, who was President Biden’s special assistant for technology and competition policy.  The lectures were sponsored by the Center […]
  • University of Pennsylvania Symposium
    On September 29, 2023, the Penn Economic History Forum held a symposium on my new book, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century.  The event was well attended, with commentators, both in-person and online, including Brian Cheffins (Cambridge University), Alexander Field (Santa Clara University), Patrick Fridenson (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale […]

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