Laura Hyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 346717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Hyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Hyman |
| SIGNATURE | HYMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9069-7299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Good Debtor, Good Worker
Understanding the history of consumer debt in the twentieth century seems simple enough: market making. Debt has existed as long as civilization, but it was only in the last century that our petty debts became big business, and that was made possible by making markets for consumer debts akin to those of businesses and governments
The limits of organized capital
Pension fund activism by unions was not successful in advancing labor's agenda, despite the apparent opportunities. As importantly, the purported “shareholder revolution” was actually a managerial revolution
Gavin Benke. Risk and Ruin
In Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism, Gavin Benke is self-consciously writing the second draft of the history of the 2001 collapse of the notorious energy company Enron. The first draft, by business journalists, he argues, focused on the villains of the firm, Jeff Skilling and Kenneth Lay, whose avarice and arrogance were blamed for the implosion of the company that was celebrated until the moment of its collapse. Benke …
The Pricing of Progress
Typically, historians point to the interwar period of the early twentieth century as the moment when national indicators, such as gross national product, became commonplace, but Eli Cook forces us to look earlier, intertwining the rise of economic measurement with the rise of capitalist investment itself. The Pricing of Progress historicizes how we have quantified the success of our economy. In the nineteenth century, moral statistics—per capita …
Interchange
This "Interchange" discussion took place online in late September and early October 2013.As with past interchanges, we encouraged participants to engage in a free-flowing discussion focused on our moderator's questions, their own perspectives and conjectures, and each other's comments.What follows is an edited version of the very lively online conversation that resulted
Happiness and Memory
This article seeks to consider, in an exploratory fashion, the relationship between happiness and memory. Both of these areas of investigation are relative newcomers to sociology, and have rarely, if at all, been studied in tandem. The article draws upon data from qualitative interviews with British adults that formed part of an empirical study of people's experiences and perceptions of happiness. In doing so, it suggests that people identify the…
The Politics of Debt
The Politics of Consumer Debt
Facing a crisis of idle capital during the Great Depression, policy-makers developed new ways to promote private investment for public ends. Throughout the twentieth century, the use of state power to guide investment has been a powerful, and now largely ignored, tool of economic policy
Debtor Nation
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? This, the first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twent…
Debtor Nation
Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt
Today, in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, there is a foreboding sense that it is too easy for Americans to borrow. Living beyond our means on our cards and our mortgages, Americans borrowed at an unsustainable pace, and what put us here, the logic goes, was the unfortunate collision of lenders' greed and borrower's cupidity. Yet free-for-all borrowing defined another moment's economy as well, but without the ill consequences: the postwar pe…
Social Measurement through Social Surveys
How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in empirical research? This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate 'hot' social science topics with …
Debtor Nation
It is difficult to consider debt as having a history, because it seems like debt might be, as one popular historian of money in 1917 described it, a “semi-slavery . . . [which] existed before the dawn of history, and it exists to-day.” People, in a certain sense, have always lent money to one another: to a wayward brother, across a saloon bar, to a coworker. But even by 1917, as that popular history was written in the midst of world war, the anci…
Interchange
This "Interchange" discussion took place online in late September and early October 2013.As with past interchanges, we encouraged participants to engage in a free-flowing discussion focused on our moderator's questions, their own perspectives and conjectures, and each other's comments.What follows is an edited version of the very lively online conversation that resulted
Debtor Nation
Happiness and Memory
This article seeks to consider, in an exploratory fashion, the relationship between happiness and memory. Both of these areas of investigation are relative newcomers to sociology, and have rarely, if at all, been studied in tandem. The article draws upon data from qualitative interviews with British adults that formed part of an empirical study of people's experiences and perceptions of happiness. In doing so, it suggests that people identify the…
The Politics of Consumer Debt
Facing a crisis of idle capital during the Great Depression, policy-makers developed new ways to promote private investment for public ends. Throughout the twentieth century, the use of state power to guide investment has been a powerful, and now largely ignored, tool of economic policy
The Pricing of Progress
Typically, historians point to the interwar period of the early twentieth century as the moment when national indicators, such as gross national product, became commonplace, but Eli Cook forces us to look earlier, intertwining the rise of economic measurement with the rise of capitalist investment itself. The Pricing of Progress historicizes how we have quantified the success of our economy. In the nineteenth century, moral statistics—per capita …
Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt
Today, in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, there is a foreboding sense that it is too easy for Americans to borrow. Living beyond our means on our cards and our mortgages, Americans borrowed at an unsustainable pace, and what put us here, the logic goes, was the unfortunate collision of lenders' greed and borrower's cupidity. Yet free-for-all borrowing defined another moment's economy as well, but without the ill consequences: the postwar pe…
Debtor Nation
It is difficult to consider debt as having a history, because it seems like debt might be, as one popular historian of money in 1917 described it, a “semi-slavery . . . [which] existed before the dawn of history, and it exists to-day.” People, in a certain sense, have always lent money to one another: to a wayward brother, across a saloon bar, to a coworker. But even by 1917, as that popular history was written in the midst of world war, the anci…
Debtor Nation
It is difficult to consider debt as having a history, because it seems like debt might be, as one popular historian of money in 1917 described it, a “semi-slavery . . . [which] existed before the dawn of history, and it exists to-day.” People, in a certain sense, have always lent money to one another: to a wayward brother, across a saloon bar, to a coworker. But even by 1917, as that popular history was written in the midst of world war, the anci…
Social Measurement through Social Surveys
How do academic social scientists and survey professionals use social measurement techniques? How are these techniques applied to specific concepts in empirical research? This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate 'hot' social science topics with …
Debtor Nation
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? This, the first book to follow the history of personal debt in modern America, traces the evolution of debt over the course of the twent…
Debtor Nation
Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt
Today, in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, there is a foreboding sense that it is too easy for Americans to borrow. Living beyond our means on our cards and our mortgages, Americans borrowed at an unsustainable pace, and what put us here, the logic goes, was the unfortunate collision of lenders' greed and borrower's cupidity. Yet free-for-all borrowing defined another moment's economy as well, but without the ill consequences: the postwar pe…
The Politics of Consumer Debt
Facing a crisis of idle capital during the Great Depression, policy-makers developed new ways to promote private investment for public ends. Throughout the twentieth century, the use of state power to guide investment has been a powerful, and now largely ignored, tool of economic policy
The Politics of Debt
Interchange
This "Interchange" discussion took place online in late September and early October 2013.As with past interchanges, we encouraged participants to engage in a free-flowing discussion focused on our moderator's questions, their own perspectives and conjectures, and each other's comments.What follows is an edited version of the very lively online conversation that resulted
Happiness and Memory
This article seeks to consider, in an exploratory fashion, the relationship between happiness and memory. Both of these areas of investigation are relative newcomers to sociology, and have rarely, if at all, been studied in tandem. The article draws upon data from qualitative interviews with British adults that formed part of an empirical study of people's experiences and perceptions of happiness. In doing so, it suggests that people identify the…
Gavin Benke. Risk and Ruin
In Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism, Gavin Benke is self-consciously writing the second draft of the history of the 2001 collapse of the notorious energy company Enron. The first draft, by business journalists, he argues, focused on the villains of the firm, Jeff Skilling and Kenneth Lay, whose avarice and arrogance were blamed for the implosion of the company that was celebrated until the moment of its collapse. Benke …
The Pricing of Progress
Typically, historians point to the interwar period of the early twentieth century as the moment when national indicators, such as gross national product, became commonplace, but Eli Cook forces us to look earlier, intertwining the rise of economic measurement with the rise of capitalist investment itself. The Pricing of Progress historicizes how we have quantified the success of our economy. In the nineteenth century, moral statistics—per capita …
The limits of organized capital
Pension fund activism by unions was not successful in advancing labor's agenda, despite the apparent opportunities. As importantly, the purported “shareholder revolution” was actually a managerial revolution
Good Debtor, Good Worker
Understanding the history of consumer debt in the twentieth century seems simple enough: market making. Debt has existed as long as civilization, but it was only in the last century that our petty debts became big business, and that was made possible by making markets for consumer debts akin to those of businesses and governments
Political science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Debt (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Finance (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Finance (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Market economy (5 works)