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The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Capitalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

MARY O’SULLIVAN
MARY O’SULLIVAN*
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Mary O’Sullivan is a professor of Economic History and the director of the Department of History, Economics, and Society at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. O’Sullivan’s research focuses on the history of capitalism, with particular attention to enterprises, industries, and financial institutions, as well as the history of economic thought with regard to profit, finance, and capital. Her most recent book, Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of U.S. Capitalism, 1866–1922, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2016. O’Sullivan was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for 2016–2017; she served as the president of the Business History Conference in 2017–2018, and she is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. E-mail: Mary.Osullivan@unige.ch
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 751 - 802
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My reading and thinking about profit was greatly facilitated by a wonderful year as a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2016–2017. Many colleagues contributed to the form and content of my presidential address. Meg Graham, Sebastian Guex, Maggie Levenstein, Naomi Lamoreaux, Ken Lipartito, Phil Scranton, Bob Wright, and Mary Yeager deserve special mention in this regard but I would also like to thank other colleagues for the stimulating discussions I have had with them about the history of profit, both before and after I delivered my address. These exchanges raised fascinating questions, and although some of them remain in the margins of this written version, they are already animating my further research on the history of profit. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of David Sicilia, our program chair in Baltimore, and the other members of the program committee—Christy Chapin, Per Hansen, Naomi Lamoreaux, Rory Miller, and Julia Ott—for an excellent BHC conference in April 2018.

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