![]() So, when writing my recent book, Accounting for Slavery, I mostly avoided the word. The point of the debate is for students to recognize how many different assumptions people bring to the word and how different assumptions can lead to conflict and confusion. I teach an economic history class called “The History of American Capitalism,” and one of the first things we do is to debate the definition. Johnny Fulfer: Could tell readers a little bit about your new article? What inspired you to write it and what are your main arguments?Ĭaitlin Rosenthal: The word capitalism often brings more confusion than clarity. This Q&A explores her new article entitled, “ Capitalism when Labor was Capital: Slavery, Power, and Price in Antebellum America “, which was just published in an exciting new journal called Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. The second issue of Capitalism is available for free through August 14, 2020. Her first book, Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, was published by Harvard University Press in 2018. history with a focus on the development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis. She is a historian of 18th and 19th century U.S. Q&A with Caitlin Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. ![]()
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