Creating a Human Economy: Challenging Capitalism and Economics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Tima Miroshnichenko

When: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Where: Deutsch Seminar Room 112, International Center, UNO

Janek Wasserman is Professor of Modern German and Central European History at the University of Alabama. His research interests focus on intellectual history, Central European history, and the history of economics. His first book, Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 appeared with Cornell in 2014. His second, The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, appeared in 2019 with Yale and won the Joseph Spengler Book Prize from the History of Economics Society.

He is currently finishing a book manuscript, titled Creating a Human Economy: Challenging Capitalism and Economics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, which explores Central European critiques of economics and proposed alternatives to capitalism around 1900.