{"id":534,"date":"2024-06-21T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=534"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:53:11","slug":"commerce-in-america-walters-memorial-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/lectures\/commerce-in-america-walters-memorial-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Commerce in America, October 11, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\">The Ernest J. Walters, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em>\u201cI cannot express my thoughts better than by saying that the Americans put something heroic into their way of trading\u201d (Democracy in America).<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-d6hSNeF1Ow\">OCTOBER 11, 2023 &#8211; 5:00-6:30PM &#8211; Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Scholar-in-Residence:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Jerry Z. Muller (Catholic University of America) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-583 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/11\/Jerry-Muller-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"308\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 205px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 205\/308;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cTocqueville on Capitalism in America\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Adam Smith in His Time and Ours<\/em> (1993); <em>Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present<\/em> (1997); <em>The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought<\/em> (2002); and <em>The Tyranny of Metrics<\/em>, published by Princeton University Press in 2018 and since translated into ten languages. His 36-part lecture series \u201cThinking about Capitalism\u201d (2009) is available from The Great Courses. His popular writings have appeared in <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>,<em> The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and other venues.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-d6hSNeF1Ow\">View Lecture Here<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":588,"template":"","update-categories":[10],"class_list":["post-534","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-past-lectures"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lectures\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lectures"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lectures\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lectures\/534\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}