Books by James Livingston

In this study of the rise of corporate capitalism, the author contends it was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event. He places this revolution in the reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, which attends the ""age of surplus"" under corporate auspices.

"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

In Origins of the Federal Reserve System, James Livingston approaches this controversial topic from a fresh perspective, asking how, during this era, a "new order of corporation men" made itself the preeminent source of knowledge on all significant economic issues and thereby changed the character of public and political discourse in the United States.

At the turn of the century, new intellectual and cultural currents came together to reorient society. By drawing new connections between these developments, Livingston recasts discussion of the coming of modernity.