With support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University has launched a new Seminar on the History of American Capitalism.  The Seminar meets between six and ten times each year to discuss emerging research in the field. The gatherings aim to create an interdisciplinary environment for scholars across a range of historical subfields to share and discuss new work on the economic, cultural, and intellectual history of a market society, its political context, and the role of entrepreneurship in the American past and present. Many of the visitors contribute to our ongoing working paper series, and the program will host a conference during the 2016–2017 academic year. If you have questions about the program, please contact Angus Burgin, Christy Chapin, or Louis Galambos.

2023 Working Papers: No. 8

• AC/No.8/February 2023: “From Orchards to Chips: Silicon Valley’s Evolving Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” by Stephen B. Adams

2017 Working Papers: No. 7

• AC/No.7/June 2017: “Pursuing Prosperity, 1953-1961” by Louis Galambos

2016 Working Papers: No. 1-6

• AC/No.6/May 2016: “The Chaos That Was Enron: Enron and the Transformation of the U.S. Natural Gas Industry, 1968-2001” by Alan D. Anderson
• AC/No.5/May 2016: “Wright Patman Is Dead: Small Business Conservatives and the Politics of Capitalism in the 1980s” by Benjamin C. Waterhouse
• AC/No.4/March 2016: “Entrepreneurial Multipliers: The Long Sequence of Oil” by Joe Pratt
• AC/No.3/March 2016: “The Entrepreneurial Multiplier Effect” by Louis Galambos and Franco Amatori
• AC/No.2/March 2016: “The Incredible, Edible Checkoff: Farmers, Consumers, and the Political Economy of Commodity Promotion” by Sarah Milov
• AC/No.1/March 2016: “States, Not Nation: The Sources of Political and Economic Development in the Early United States” by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis