BIO

Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations.  He has published two books on the history of personal debt (Debtor Nation and Borrow), a history of how American work became so insecure (Temp), as well as other edited collections and articles.

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Originally from Baltimore, Hyman received a BA in history and mathematics from Columbia University. A former Fulbright scholar and McKinsey associate, he received his PhD in American history from Harvard University.

 

He is a founding editor of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism book series from Columbia University Press, and the director of the History of Capitalism Summer Camp.

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Louis enjoys talking to book clubs and organizations over Zoom or Skype.