Louis Roland Hyman (born 1977) is an American writer and economic historian. He is currently the Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History at Johns Hopkins University and a professor at Hopkins' SNF Agora Institute.^[1] Previously he was the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.

After growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended McDonogh School, Hyman attended Columbia University in New York City. He graduated with a BA in history and mathematics.

Hyman was a 1999–2000 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Toronto, during which time he studied Canadian history.^[2]

In 2007, Hyman earned a PhD in American history from Harvard University.

Hyman revised his doctoral dissertation into a book during a fellowship at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The result, titled Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, was published by Princeton University Press in 2011.^[3] Choice named it one of the top 25 "Outstanding Academic Titles" for 2011.^[4]

Hyman has served as a consultant for global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.^[5] His writings have appeared in such publications as Enterprise & Society,^[6] Reviews in American History,^[7] CNBC,^[8] Wilson Quarterly,^[9] and the New York Times.^[5][10]

His second book, Borrow: The American Way of Debt, which explained how American culture shaped finance and vice versa, was published in 2012.^[11]

After spending time as a lecturer at Harvard,^[12] Hyman now works at Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations.^[13] He continues to conduct research on the history of American capitalism. He also teaches an EdX massive open online course (MOOC) called American Capitalism: A History.

Hyman is married to the novelist Katherine Howe.^[14] His mother, Patty Kuzbida, is a retired laboratory technician and outsider artist whose works have been collected in the American Visionary Art Museum.^[15][16]

• Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (2011)
• Borrow: The American Way of Debt (2012)
• American Capitalism: A Reader (2014) with Edward E. Baptist
• Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power (2017) with Joseph Tohill
• Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security (2018)

• "The Original Subprime Crisis." The New York Times. December 26, 2007.
• "Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America." Enterprise & Society, Volume 9, Number 4, December 2008, pp. 614–618.
• "The Architecture of New Deal Capitalism." Reviews in American History, Volume 37, Number 1, March 2009, pp. 93–100.
• "Ending Discrimination, Legitimating Debt: The Political Economy of Race, Gender, and Credit Access in the 1960s and 1970s." Enterprise & Society, Volume 12, Number 1, March 2011, pp. 200–232.
• "Laid Flat by Layaway." The New York Times. October 11, 2011. A23.

• "American Debt, Global Capital." The Shock of the Global. Harvard University Press. (2010)
• "Rethinking the Corporation." What's Good for Business: Business in Postwar: Business and Politics in Postwar America. Oxford University Press. (2012)

• Official website
• Faculty listing at the ILR School at Cornell University