Workshop : The Books of Capital

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A l'occasion de leur passage à Paris, nous recevons deux grands historiens du capitalisme que sont Jonathan Levy (Université de Chicago) et Michael Zakim (Université de Tel Aviv) pour une après-midi d'étude sur "Les livres du capital" le 3 décembre de 14h à 18h au Centre de sociologie des organisations (19, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris).

Ils nous présenteront leurs derniers livres (Zakim: Accounting for Capitalism, University of Chicago Press, 2018 ; et Levy : Ages of American Capitalism, Random House, 2021), puis nous aurons une conversation sur le rôle de la comptabilité et des formalités administratives dans l'histoire du capitalisme, un thème commun à leur travaux à tous deux, mais qu'ils abordent de manières différentes.

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THE BOOKS OF CAPITAL

2-6pm, Friday 3 December 2021
Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po
19, rue Amélie 75007 Paris (métro La Tour-Maubourg)

Schedule:

2pm to 3:30pm:
Michael Zakim -- Accounting for Capitalism

3:30pm to 5pm:
Jonathan Levy -- Ages of American Capitalism

5pm-6pm:
Roundtable on Accounting, Paperwork, and the History of Capitalism
With Michael Zakim, Jonathan Levy, and Martin Giraudeau

Guest speakers:

Michael Zakim is Professor of History at the University of Tel Aviv. He writes and teaches about the material and cultural history of modernity in America. This includes the history of the economy (including labor history), political theory, the sociology of knowledge, statistics, accounting, machinery, fashion, the invention of photography, gender and the body, and the birth of the private self. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and Paper: A Global History (Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, forthcoming in Hebrew), as well as the editor of Capitalism Takes Command: the Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (with Gary Kornblith; University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Jonathan Levy is Professor of US History, Fundamentals, Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of economic life and of the United States, with interests in the relationships among business history, political economy, legal history, and the history of ideas and culture. His first book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Harvard University Press, 2012), won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Ellis W. Hawley Prize, and Avery O. Craven Award and the American Society for Legal History's William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize. His most recently completed book is Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (Random House, 2021), which is a history of American economic life from British colonial settlement through the Great Recession. The book is also a single-volume history of the United States.