October 11, 2023: Commerce in America
The Ernest J. Walters, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series
“I cannot express my thoughts better than by saying that the Americans put something heroic into their way of trading” (Democracy in America).
OCTOBER 11, 2023 – 5:00-6:30PM – Watkins Room, Trone Student Center
Scholar-in-Residence:
Jerry Z. Muller (Catholic University of America)
“Tocqueville on Capitalism in America”
Jerry Z. Muller is professor emeritus of history at the Catholic University of America. He earned a B.A. from Brandeis University, and an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of seven books, including Adam Smith in His Time and Ours (1993); Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present (1997); The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought (2002); and The Tyranny of Metrics, published by Princeton University Press in 2018 and since translated into ten languages. His 36-part lecture series “Thinking about Capitalism” (2009) is available from The Great Courses. His popular writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other venues.