Panel Discussion: Capitalism and Culture

Jonathan Cohen, University of Virginia, and Davor Mondom, Syracuse University
Comment: Sven Beckert, Harvard University

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 5:15PM - 7:30PM

This panel examines the reaction against welfare state capitalism in the mid-20th century U.S., looking at two companies that promoted themselves as bastions of free enterprise or as a solution to high state taxes. Mondom’s paper is “Capitalism with a Human Face: Amway, Direct Sales, and the Redemption of Free Enterprise.” Cohen’s essay is titled “Rivers of Gold: Scientific Games and the Spread of State Lotteries, 1980-1984.”

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