American writer and economic historian (born 1977)
Louis Roland Hyman (born 1977) is an American writer and
economic historian . He is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations 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 .
[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 is married to the novelist
Katherine Howe .
[13] His mother, Patty Kuzbida, is a retired laboratory technician and
outsider artist whose works have been collected in the
American Visionary Art Museum .
[14]
[15]
Publications
Books
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)
Borrow: The American Way of Debt (2012)
American Capitalism: A Reader (2014) with
Edward E. Baptist
Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power (2017) with Joseph Tohill
Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security (2018)
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
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"Program Resources – U.S. Student Grantees" . Us.Fulbrightonline.Org. Archived from
the original on July 31, 2007. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
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Hyman, L.: Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink . Press.princeton.edu. January 24, 2012.
ISBN
9780691156163 . Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
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"Choice Reviews Online" . Cro2.org. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
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a
b
"Biography" . Archived from
the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012 .
^ Hyman, Louis (2008). "Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America". Enterprise & Society . 9 (4): 614–618.
doi :
10.1093/es/khn083 .
Project MUSE
255462 .
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"Publications" . Archived from
the original on June 16, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012 .
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https://www.cnbc.com/id/45360127/This_Holiday_Season_Lay_off_the_Layaway_Author
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"The Wilson Quarterly: The Debt Bomb by Louis Hyman" . Archived from
the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012 .
^ Hyman, Louis (October 11, 2011).
"Wal-Mart's Layaway Plan" . The New York Times .
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" 'Borrow' by Louis Hyman: Life and debt" .
^ Hyman, Louis (October 28, 2012).
Debtor Nation . Princeton University Press.
ISBN
9780691156163 .
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"Louis Hyman" .
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"Weddings/Celebrations; Katherine Howe, Louis Hyman" . New York Times . June 29, 2003.
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"Patty Kuzbida" . AVAM . Retrieved June 1, 2022 .
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"Not Your Average Art Museum" . www.arts.gov . Retrieved June 1, 2022 .
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