| My
interests center on what I have come to think of as the history of
capitalism -- an amalgam of business history, the history of technology,
labor history, legal history, and political economy, with healthy doses of
(quantitative) economic, social, and cultural history. At heart I am a
comparativist with special interests in the U.S.
and Europe during the nineteenth century.
A
key theme motivating my research, writing, and teaching is the
relationship between political and economic change -- in particular,
understanding the manifold ways in which
politics, broadly construed, shapes industrial change.
Under the rubric of "politics," I think
not only of policymaking but also of the (largely overlooked)
effects of the overall structure of
political institutions. |
