Louis Hyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Hyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hyman |
| SIGNATURE | HYMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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 …
Temp
Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business and government leaders embraced a vision of an American workforce rooted in stability. But over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the postwar institutions that insulated us from volatility--big unions, big corporations, powerful regulators--have been swept aside by a fervent belief in "the …
Shopping for Change
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…
Debtor Nation
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
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
Shopping for Change
Temp
Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business and government leaders embraced a vision of an American workforce rooted in stability. But over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the postwar institutions that insulated us from volatility--big unions, big corporations, powerful regulators--have been swept aside by a fervent belief in "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 …
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Debt (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works)