BIO

Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 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. He is currently working on a history of e-commerce.

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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.