Books:
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (forthcoming, Random House, April 2021).
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Harvard University Press, 2012).
- Organization of American Historians Book Prizes for 2013:
- Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first book on US history
- Avery O. Craven Award, era of Civil War or Reconstruction
- Ellis. W. Hawley Prize, post-Civil War politics or political economy
- American Society for Legal History:
- William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize, first book on legal history
- Society for U.S. Intellectual History: 2013 Notable Title
- Excerpt in Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Reviews in The New Republic, The Nation, Dissent, Public Books, The Wall Street Journal, Choice, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Radical Uncertainty,” Critical Quarterly (April 2020).
“Primal Capital,” Critical Historical Studies 6, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 161-193.
“Appreciating Assets: New Directions in the History of Political Economy,” American Historical Review (December 2017).
“Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism,” Business History Review 91, 3 (Autumn 2017): 483-510.
“From Fiscal Triangle to Passing Through: Rise of the Nonprofit Corporation.” In Corporations and American Democracy, edited by Naomi Lamoreaux and William Novak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“Altruism and the Origins of Nonprofit Philanthropy.” In Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Norms, Institutions, edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholtz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Coauthored with Jeremy Adelman. “The Fall and Rise of Economic History.” Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec. 1, 2014).
“Accounting for Profit and the History of Capital.” Critical Historical Studies 1, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 171–214.
“‘The Mortgage Worked the Hardest’: The Fate of Landed Independence in Nineteenth-Century America.” In Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Gary J. Kornblith and Michael Zakim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
“The Freaks of Fortune: Moral Responsibility for Booms and Busts in Nineteenth-Century America.”The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10, no. 4 (Oct. 2011): 435–46.
“Contemplating Delivery: Futures Trading and the Problem of Commodity Exchange in the Unied States, 1875–1905.” American Historical Review 111, no. 2 (Apr. 2006): 307–35.
Other:
“Visualizing Climate Change and Loss: Houston,” Harvard Center for History and Economics, http://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss/houston/houston.html
“Until the Next Crash,” N+1, January 2019.
“Stuck in a Gilded Age,” Dissent Magazine, Summer 2016.
“Economic History: The Once and Future King,” with Jeremy Adelman, Chronicle of Higher Education (December 1, 2014).
“Structures of Risk: A Conversation between Jonathan Levy and John Harwood, Pidgin Magazine 15 (2013).
Contributor, Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010 (Princeton University Art Museum Series, 2010).
“Trading in Dreams,” Wilson Quarterly (October, 2006).
Reviews:
Review of Daniel M. Abramson, Obsolescence: An Architectural History (2016) in Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism (Winter 2018).
Review of Jenifer Van Vleck, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy (2013) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 98-99.
Review of Joshua D. Wolff, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 (2013) in Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (January 2014): 278-279.
Review of Brett Christophers, Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism (2013) in Economic Geography 90, no. 1 (January 2014): 119-121.
“The Rise of Finance,” Public Books (Fall 2011).
Review of Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War
(2009) and John Majewski, Modernizing a Slave Economy (2009) in Journal of American Studies 44, 1 (March 2010): 1-4.
Review of Laura F. Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (2009), in Social History, 35, no. 3 (August 2010): 339-341.