Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he is the Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History. He is also a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. He has published books on the history of personal debt (Debtor Nation and Borrow), a history of insecure work (Temp), and additional edited collections and articles.
Originally from Baltimore, he received a BA in history and mathematics from Columbia University. A former Fulbright scholar and McKinsey associate, he earned a PhD in American history from Harvard University.
He is a founding editor of Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism, director of the Center for Economy and Society, and director of the History of Capitalism Summer Camp.
