Louis Hyman is an assistant professor in the Labor Relations, Law, and History department at the ILR school of Cornell University and the author of Borrow and Debtor Nation

A former Fulbright scholar and McKinsey consultant, Hyman received his PhD in American history in 02007 from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Harold K. Gross Prize for best dissertation in history at Harvard and the Krooss prize for best dissertation in business history nationally.

His writings have appeared in the New York Times , The Atlantic , Wilson Quarterly , Bloomberg, and CNBC, amongst many other publications. He teaches the MOOC American Capitalism: A History through EdX and is the founding editor of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism book series from Columbia University Press.

Currently he is working on a book entitled Short-Sighted: The Rise of Flexible Corporations and Temporary Work in Postwar America.****