Louis Hyman
Louis Roland Hyman (born 1977) is an American writer and economic historian. He is an associate professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.
Education
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.[1]
In 2007, Hyman earned a PhD in American history from Harvard University.
Career
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.[2] Choice named it one of the top 25 "Outstanding Academic Titles" for 2011.[3]
Hyman has served as a consultant for global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.[4] His writings have appeared in such publications as Enterprise & Society,[5] Reviews in American History,[6] CNBC,[7] Wilson Quarterly,[8] and the New York Times.[4][9]
His second book, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, which explained how American culture shaped finance and vice versa, was published in 2012.[10]
After spending time as a lecturer at Harvard,[11] Hyman now works at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, where he is an assistant professor in the Labor Relations, Law, and History department.[12] 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
Hyman currently resides in upstate New York with his wife, the novelist Katherine Howe.[13]
Publications
Books
- Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)
- Borrow: The American Way of Debt (2012)
Articles
- "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
- "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
- ↑ "Program Resources – U.S. Student Grantees". Us.Fulbrightonline.Org. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Hyman, L.: Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink". Press.princeton.edu. January 24, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Choice Reviews Online". Cro2.org. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- 1 2 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/directory/lrh62/biography.html
- ↑ http://z3950.muse.jhu.edu/journals/enterprise_and_society/summary/v009/9.4.hyman.html
- ↑ http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/directory/lrh62/publications.html
- ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/id/45360127/This_Holiday_Season_Lay_off_the_Layaway_Author
- ↑ http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?aid=2099
- ↑ Hyman, Louis (October 11, 2011). "Wal-Mart's Layaway Plan". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/borrow-by-louis-hyman-life-and-debt-1.3482227
- ↑ http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9431.html
- ↑ http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/directory/lrh62/
- ↑ "Weddings/Celebrations; Katherine Howe, Louis Hyman". New York Times. June 29, 2003.