Books

 

Paper: A Global History, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, forthcoming in Hebrew.

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Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made, University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Introduction: The Clerk Problem

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Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860, University of Chicago Press, 2003 (paperback edition, 2005).

 

 

 

Edited Projects

 

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Hebrew edition, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2021.

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Knowledge and Its Uses, a special issue of the Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 38 (Fall 2018).

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Capitalism Takes Command: the Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (with Gary Kornblith), University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Hard Times, a special issue of Common-place, vol. 3, no. 3 (April 2010).

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Privacy: A History (with Milette Shamir), a special issue of the historical quarterly Zmanim 104 (Fall 2008), in Hebrew.

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The Body in History, a special issue of the historical quarterly Zmanim 78 (Spring 2002), in Hebrew.

 

 

 

Articles and Chapters

 

"Individualism in America: Alexis de Tocqueville Discovers a New World of Liberal Politics," Critical Historical Studies, forthcoming.

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"Fixing Liberalism: Responding to A Theory of Liberal Property by Hanoch Dagan," Tel-Aviv University Law Review, 2021, in Hebrew.

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"Human Capital," Introduction to the Hebrew edition of Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2021, in Hebrew.

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“The Political Geometry of Statistical Tables,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 38 (Fall 2018).

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“Knowledge and Its Uses,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 38 (Fall 2018).

 

“Importing the Crystal Palace,” American Capitalism: New Histories, Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2018).

 

“Capitalism and Slavery in the United States,” Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America, Jonathan Daniel Wells, ed. (Routledge, 2018).

 

“The Business of Writing,” Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

 

“The Best of Intentions,” Dissent, Winter 2015.

 

“The Economy of Fashion,” Dream Weavers (Beit Hatfusot, 2014), in Hebrew.

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“Bringing the Economy Back In,” Reviews in American History, vol. 42, no. 3 (September 2014).

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“Paperwork,” Raritan, vol. xxxiii, no. 4 (Spring 2014).

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“Capitalism as Progress,” Odyssey, no. 22 (January 2014), in Hebrew.

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“Desk Diseases,” Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 6, no. 1 (2013).

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“A Democracy of Common Men,” in A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson, Sean Patrick Adams, ed., Wiley-Blackwell (2013).

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“An American Revolutionary Tradition” (with Gary Kornblith), introduction to Capitalism Takes Command: the Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America, Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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“Producing Capitalism: the Clerk at Work,” in Capitalism Takes Command: the Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America, Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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 “The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America, 1815-1860,” in A Perfect Fit; the Garment Industry and American Jewry (Texas Tech University Press, 2012).

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“Intellectual Property in the Age of Capital,” a response to Stephen Wilf, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 12, no. 1 (2011)

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“Inventing Industrial Statistics,” Money Matters: The Law, Politics, and Economics of Currency, a special issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 11, no. 1 (2010).

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“Statistics-for-Profit,” in Measuring Everything (Ben Gurion University Press, 2010), in Hebrew.

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“The Best of Times and the Worst of Times,” introduction to Hard Times, a special issue of Common-place, vol. 3, no. 3 (April 2010).

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"I Make Myself Sick: On the Pathologies of American Individualism," Zmanim 104 (Fall 2008), in Hebrew.

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“The History of Privacy” (with Milette Shamir), Zmanim 104 (Fall 2008), in Hebrew.

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“Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Markets: Merchant Clerks, Industrial Statistics, and the Tautologies of Profit,” in Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, edited by Manisha Sinha and Penny von Eschen (Columbia University Press, 2007).

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“The Business Clerk as Social Revolutionary: A Labor History of the Non-Producing Classes,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 26, no. 4 (2006).

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“Bookkeeping as Ideology: Capitalist Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America,” Common-place, vol. 6, no. 3 (April 2006).

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“The Dialectics of Merchant Capital: New York City Businessmen during the Secession Winter, 1860-1861,” New York History, vol. 87, no. 1 (Winter 2006).

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“Seamstresses and Whores: Working Women, Women’s Work, and the Rise of the Middle Class,” Historia 15 (2005), in Hebrew.

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“The Profitable Body,” Zmanim 78 (Spring 2002), in Hebrew.

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“The Body in History,” Zmanim 78 (Spring 2002), in Hebrew.

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“Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made,” American Historical Review, vol. 106, no. 5 (December 2001).

Reprinted in Peter McNeil, Critical and Primary Sources on Fashion, Oxford: Berg, 2008.

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“Capitalism, Capitalists, and the War Against Slavery,” in The Liberal Tradition in America, Arnon Gutfeld, ed., Tel Aviv:  Zmora-Beitan, 2001, in Hebrew.

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"Men in Control: Masturbation as an Historical Subject," Helicon 36 (Winter 2000), in Hebrew.

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"A Ready-Made Business: The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America," Business History Review 73 (Spring 1999).

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“Capitalism, Democracy, and the Business Suit,” Zmanim 66 (Spring 1999), in Hebrew.

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“Customizing the Industrial Revolution: The Reinvention of Tailoring in the Nineteenth Century,” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 1998).

Reprinted in McNeil and Karaminas, Men’s Fashion Reader, Oxford: Berg, 2008.

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“What is a Political History of Clothing?” Library Columns, (Spring 1997).