agriculture

Andrew Godley and I recently published an article: "Structure and Meaning in Strategic Paradoxes: Exploring Historical Context in the Emergence of Agrifood Standards," Business History In Press (2024): 1-26,

Written with my colleague Beatrice D'Ippolito, "From Monsanto to ‘Monsatan’: Ownership and control of history as a strategic resource" explores challenges organizations face when attempting to translate a problematic past into strategic gain.

The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal has released a special issue on historical approaches to entrepreneurship, which includes an article by myself and Andrew Godley as well as several excellent articles by world-leading business historians (Dan Wadhwani, Stephanie Decker, and Matthew Hollow, among others).

Early views are available of my latest article in Enterprise & Society, “Crop Insurance and the New Deal Roots of Agricultural Financialization.” Federal crop insurance, initially developed as a social insurance program during the late New Deal, increasingly became a lever of financialization, a means of disciplining individual farmers to think of farming in abstract terms of risk management.

I recently published an article for the 100th Centennial of the Agricultural History Society reviewing opportunities and challenges for integrating theory and theoretical perspectives into agricultural history research.

Read the whole article in Agricultural History on JSTOR.

Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics team has done a fabulous job with this podcast based on my research for Supermarket USA. Audra Wolfe (@ColdWarScience), Anne Effland (of the USDA), and Peter Timmer (emeritus Harvard) brought brilliant insights to the show. And Matt Hickey and his production team did a great job mixing vintage audio with contemporary scholarship.

Myt article, "Agribusiness, the Family Farm, and the Politics of Technological Determinism in the Post-World War II United States," was published in Technology and Culture.

My award-winning book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, has recently been published in a paperback edition by Princeton University Press.

Sarah Phillips of Boston University and I are very pleased to announce the publication of our long-awaited The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History with Documents, available from your local bookstore.