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    SOCIAL DARWINISM, INEQUALITY, AND THE “FREE” MARKET, 1877-1914

    SOCIAL DARWINISM, INEQUALITY, AND THE “FREE” MARKET, 1877-1914

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    Between Reconstruction and the start of World War I, the meaning of economic freedom was fiercely debated in the United States. Should the laws of supply and demand prevail even if it meant some groups grew richer and others poorer? What was the role of the federal government in providing relief from poverty, unemployment, and extreme socioeconomic inequality? This lecture explores a fundamental moment in which Americans of all ideological stripes attempted to frame debates about what liberty looked like in a capitalist society—debates that continue more than a century later when neoliberalism, an updated form of unregulated capitalism, enjoys broad consensus.
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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Summer 2023
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Tuesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Date(s)
    Jul 25, 2023