Sophus Reinert, “The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism” on December 11th, 2014

Picture of original Way to Wealth article

The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions was pleased to welcome: 

Sophus Reinert

Harvard Business School

“The Way to Wealth Around the World:
Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism”

 

 Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 4:00PM  

Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 401 

 

Professor Reinert spoke about the surprising reach of Benjamin Franklin’s classic self-help book and its role in configuring global capitalism. He is the author of the pathbreaking and multiple award-winning monograph, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Cambridge 2011) and the editor of The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave 2013).

December 11, 2015