The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country’s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt’s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and
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11/5 | Online | Julia Ott on The Origins of Venture Capital
Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott is giving a talk online at University of Notre Dame on her latest research: “The Origins of Venture Capital, the Return of Inequality, and the Decline of Innovation in the United States, 1936 – 1982.” Julia Ott is Associate Professor of History at the New School. She holds a PhD
Carbon Cleanup: The Public is Paying, But Who is Profiting?
By June Sekera Originally published on Handelsblatt in German on August 20, 2020. Under the banner of climate mitigation, governments are subsidizing the commercial development of industrial-chemical methods of carbon capture on the premise that we can “remove” carbon dioxide that we emit and keep burning fossil fuels. Yet the two methods most widely funded by
Call for Applications: 2020-21 Heilbroner Dissertation and Faculty Fellowships
2020-21 Dissertation and Thesis Fellowships The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite doctoral and master’s candidates in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship to support dissertation or thesis research and writing during the 2020-2021 academic year. During the period of their fellowship, recipients will
Bethany Moreton | The Man in the Gray Hair Shirt: Self-Mortification and Neoliberal Soul-Craft
Heilbroner Center Visiting Fellow and Professor of History from Dartmouth College, Bethany Moreton, will deliver a talk online based on her latest research, soon to be published in the journal Capitalism: A Journal of Economics and History, edited by Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. Ott will serve as a
2/20 Juliet Schor After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How To Win It Back
6pm 2/20/2020 Teresa Lang Community and Student Center 55 W 13th Street, Room I-202 Since 2011 Schor has been studying the “sharing” and “gig” economies. Her book, After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How To Win It Back, is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2020. When the “sharing
2/4 Paul Dourish: Examining AI and Data Platforms through the Lens of Digital Materialities
Tuesday, February 2, 2020 | 5:30 PM Klein Conference Room A510, 66 West 12th Street, New York Digital materialities extend beyond the “brute materiality” of wires, servers, and heat. Software elements have their materialities too, and examining the material configurations of computation and representation shows how their constraints are entwined with computational practice. I will
A Conversation with Heuss Professor Jens Beckert by Santiago Mandirola
Earlier this December, sociologist Jens Beckert sat down with Santiago Mandirola, sociology PhD student and former Heilbroner graduate student fellow, to talk about his latest book Imagined Futures by Harvard University Press, his current project on wealth, inheritance, and inequality, and his larger research agenda after being awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious research award in Germany
10/22 Accounting for Capitalism with Michael Zakim
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 12:00 pmRoom G529, 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 The Historical Studies department with the Heilbroner Center is proud to welcome Michael Zakim, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, for his talk on Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made. Zakim is the author of Ready-Made Democracy, a political