Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and encouragement as I embark on this series of posts on the New History of Capitalism. There is clearly enormous excitement about the literature that has been produced and that is in production, but there also appears to be a great eagerness to debate some broad questions about how the field has formed, what research programs and subjects it prioritizes, and how it intersects (or doesn’t) with other fields or subfields. That is what I hope to do in this series, and I hope it clarifies some of those questions and starts some discussions. Read more