Stephen Mihm is a distinguished historian who specializes in the American economic system, business, and cultural history of the United States.
His unique explorations into the historical relationship of money, speculation, capitalism and the American experience have yielded new insights into today’s economic and political woes.
His work is far ranging, and his writings on history, science, technology and business have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and numerous scholarly books, journals, and textbooks. Stephen writes for Echoes>> the economic history blog on Bloomberg View.
Stephen has appeared as an expert-guest on numerous radio and television programs, including NPR, CNN, CNBC, the History Channel.
Stephen Mihm is the author, with Nouriel Roubini, of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Penguin Press, 2010) and A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Harvard University Press, 2007). He is also the co-editor, with Katherine Ott and David Serlin, of Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU, 2002).