Angus Burgin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angus Burgin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angus |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgin |
| SIGNATURE | BÜRGIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4430-5466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Journal Article Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Get access Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. xiv, 857. Cloth $35.00. Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Johns Hopkins University, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-5466 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” Eugene McCarraher cites these words from the English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins in an epigraph for The Enchantments of Mammon and then invokes them again a dozen times over the course of nearly seven hundred pages. For McCarraher, illuminating this forgotten grandeur requires more ardor than subtlety. Popular reviews have described the scope of his opus as “capacious,” “monumental,…
Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics
What Comes After The Neoclassical Theory Of Value? - Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (New York, PublicAffairs, 2018)
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Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson , The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 1, The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848; Volume II, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Presen…
The Cambridge History of Capitalism , a formidable compendium of thirty-four essays spread over two volumes (each well over five hundred pages in length), was first conceived by the economic historians Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williamson in 2005. At that time, the “history of capitalism” was not yet a term of art in history departments; even in graduate workshops at Harvard, the locus classicus of the later movement, “political economy” was still t…
Armed with expertise. The militarization of American social research during the Cold War
In 1956 the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare established a new institution, the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), in order to provide the armed services with access to social-s
Interchange: The History of Capitalism
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
Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas
In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose. This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions that supported them and the ways in which Galbraith and Friedman approached the visual representation of economic ideas. Friedman's series drew on support from advocacy organiz…
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often p…
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Journal Article Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance Get access Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. By Greta R. Krippner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xviii, 222 pp. $39.95, ISBN978-0-674-05084-6.) Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
Book Review| September 01 2012 The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 469 pp.$55.00. Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (3): 550–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
The Radical Conservatism of Frank H. Knight
This article examines the most prominent interwar economist at the University of Chicago, Frank Knight, through the lens of a controversial 1932 lecture in which he exhorted his audience to vote Communist. The fact that he did so poses a historical problem: why did the premier American exponent of conservative economic principles appear to advocate a vote for radical change? This article argues that the speech is representative of Knight's delibe…
Interchange: The History of Capitalism
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
Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas
In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose. This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions that supported them and the ways in which Galbraith and Friedman approached the visual representation of economic ideas. Friedman's series drew on support from advocacy organiz…
The Radical Conservatism of Frank H. Knight
This article examines the most prominent interwar economist at the University of Chicago, Frank Knight, through the lens of a controversial 1932 lecture in which he exhorted his audience to vote Communist. The fact that he did so poses a historical problem: why did the premier American exponent of conservative economic principles appear to advocate a vote for radical change? This article argues that the speech is representative of Knight's delibe…
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
Book Review| September 01 2012 The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 469 pp.$55.00. Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (3): 550–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
The Radical Conservatism of Frank H. Knight
This article examines the most prominent interwar economist at the University of Chicago, Frank Knight, through the lens of a controversial 1932 lecture in which he exhorted his audience to vote Communist. The fact that he did so poses a historical problem: why did the premier American exponent of conservative economic principles appear to advocate a vote for radical change? This article argues that the speech is representative of Knight's delibe…
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often p…
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Journal Article Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance Get access Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. By Greta R. Krippner. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xviii, 222 pp. $39.95, ISBN978-0-674-05084-6.) Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
Book Review| September 01 2012 The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 469 pp.$55.00. Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (3): 550–551. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas
In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose. This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions that supported them and the ways in which Galbraith and Friedman approached the visual representation of economic ideas. Friedman's series drew on support from advocacy organiz…
Armed with expertise. The militarization of American social research during the Cold War
In 1956 the Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare established a new institution, the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), in order to provide the armed services with access to social-s
Interchange: The History of Capitalism
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
Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson , The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 1, The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848; Volume II, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Presen…
The Cambridge History of Capitalism , a formidable compendium of thirty-four essays spread over two volumes (each well over five hundred pages in length), was first conceived by the economic historians Larry Neal and Jeffrey Williamson in 2005. At that time, the “history of capitalism” was not yet a term of art in history departments; even in graduate workshops at Harvard, the locus classicus of the later movement, “political economy” was still t…
What Comes After The Neoclassical Theory Of Value? - Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (New York, PublicAffairs, 2018)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” Eugene McCarraher cites these words from the English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins in an epigraph for The Enchantments of Mammon and then invokes them again a dozen times over the course of nearly seven hundred pages. For McCarraher, illuminating this forgotten grandeur requires more ardor than subtlety. Popular reviews have described the scope of his opus as “capacious,” “monumental,…
Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Journal Article Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Get access Louis Menand. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. xiv, 857. Cloth $35.00. Angus Burgin Angus Burgin Johns Hopkins University, USA Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-5466 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…
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