Louis Hyman

Dorothy Ross Professor of History

Louis Hyman is the Dorothy Ross Professor of History and SNF Agora Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Hyman, an American political economy historian, who studied at Columbia and Harvard, was most recently the Neufeld Professor at the ILR School of Cornell University.

He has written or edited five books on the history of American capitalism, including Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, and Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary. His public writings, exploring shifting labor and financial practices, have been published widely in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and Bloomberg.

For more, visit his website here.