Papers and Panelists

Michael Bernstein, UC San Diego
"American Economists and the 'Marginalist Revolution:' Some Notes on the Historical Roots of Contemporary Orthodoxy." (click to read)

Howard Brick, Washington University
"The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century American Social Thought" (click to read)

Jennifer Burns, University of California, Berkeley
"Skyscraper on a Hill: Ayn Rand and the Cultural Politics of American Capitalism" (click to read)

Shannan Clark, Columbia University
"Making Progressive Designers: The Design Laboratory, 1935-1940" (click to read)

David Engerman, Brandeis University
"After Ideology, What? The Rise and Fall of Ideas of Convergence" (click to read)

Dan Geary, UC Berkeley
"C. Wright Mills and American Social Science in the 1940s" (click to read)

Robert Genter, Columbia University
"Norman O. Brown and the Cultural Politics of the Nuclear Family" (click to read)

Nils Gilman
"Peter Drucker and the Intellectual Origins of Management Theory" (click to read)

Grace Hale, University of Virginia
"How the Rebel Romance Swallowed the Left, or Why Even Allen Ginsberg Can't Change the World"

Daniel Horowitz, Smith College
"Feminism and American Social Criticism at Mid-Century." (click to read)

Meg Jacobs, MIT
"Inflation - The Permanent Dilemma of Postwar American Economic Culture" (click to read)

Andrew Jewett, UC Berkeley
"Science and Consensus: The Emergence of an American Sociology of Knowledge" (click to read)

George Lipsitz, UC San Diego
"Self-Activity on the Shop Floor: The Cultural Contradictions of Business Unionism."

Kevin Mattson, Ohio University
"Towards a Social Theory of Advanced Capitalism: John Kenneth Galbraith and the Nuances of Modern Liberalism" (click to read)

Christopher Mcauley, UC Santa Barbara
"Olivier Cox and the Elusive Endof Capitalism" (click to read)

Eben Miller, Brandeis University
"'The Harris Wing' and the Contours of African-American Social Thought and Action, 1919-1954" (click to read)

Christopher Newfield, UC Santa Barbara
"Early Post-Capitalism: Humanism and Craft Labor in Mid-Century Academic Work" (click to read)

Christopher Phelps, Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus
"C.L.R. James and the Theory of State Capitalism" (click to read)

Kimberly Kathryn Phillips-Fein, Columbia University
"Boulwarism: The First Stage of Reaganism" (click to read)

Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota
"Feminism's Phantoms: A Modern(ist) Ghost Story" (click here to read)

Paddy Riley, UC Berkeley
"Clark Kerr: From the Industrial to the Knowledge Economy" (click to read)

Jeffrey Sklansky, Oregon State University
Class Dismissed: The Fall of Political Economy and the Rise of Social Psychology in Industrializing America (click to read)

Judith E. Smith, University of Massachusetts – Boston
“Political Economy and Family Economy: Anti-capitalist Critique and Its Popular Reception
in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisen in the Sun "(click to read)

John Summers, University of Rochester
"The 'Indispensable Civilian': C. Wright Mills and World War II" (click to read)

Alan Wald, University of Michigan
"Capitalism and Its Counter-Culture: Black Marxists and the Anti-Fascist Crusade."

Juliet Williams, UC Santa Barbara
"On the Road Again: Reconsidering the Political Writings of F.A. Hayek" (click to read)