The Yale Center for Representative Institutions (YCRI) presents:
Sophus Reinert, Harvard Business School: “The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism”.
Professor Reinert will speak 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).
Prof. Reinert’s lecture is sponsored by YCRI and is made possible in part in partnership with the Jack Miller Center and through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.