The History of Capitalism in the United States

4:30pm-6:00pm
Undergraduate panel in the Kresge Room at The Barker Center for the Humanities at Harvard. For directions, see our directions page.
6:00pm-7:30pm
Opening reception at Baker Library of Harvard Business School. For details and directions, see our reception page.

8:00am-8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am-10:30am
Panel 1 — Private Enterprise and Public Designs: The Intersections of Public Interest and Private Action
10:45am-12:45pm
Panel 2 — Making and Unmaking Markets: Systems of Exchange and the Transformation of Ideational and Economic Spaces
1:00pm-2:15pm
Lunch
2:30pm-4:00pm
Panel 3 — Representations: Identities and the Political Economy of Capitalism in the United States
4:30pm-6:00pm
Keynote address by Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania:
“Is There a Future to American Capitalism’s Past?”

8:30am-9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am-11:00am
Panel 4 — The Exportation of American Capitalism: American Capitalism in an International Context
11:15am-1:15pm
Panel 5 — The Science of Capitalism: Explorations of the Employment of Science in the Capitalist Enterprise
1:30pm-3:30pm
Lunch and closing discussion, with Christine Desan (Harvard Law School) and Seth Rockman (Brown University).