Mary O'Sullivan

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Mary O'Sullivan (* 1968 in Dublin ) is an Irish economic historian .

Career

O'Sullivan studied business administration at Harvard University and University College Dublin . After graduation she studied in a study and the US - consulting firm McKinsey as supermarket chains their profits to invest . As a result, she found that the companies examined put profit maximization above everything. This realization led her to take her doctoral examination in economics at Harvard . From 1996 to 2004 she was an associate professor of strategy at Insead, a private Parisian top business school, where she taught prospective managers . She then taught at the Wharton School of Business as Associate Professor of Management from 2005 to 2010 .

But for O'Sullivan, knowing how business was done was not enough, so she decided to focus on the subject of profit, including downsizing , and to study the interrelationships between business and political economy. To this end, she caught up with reading classics such as Karl Marx , Joseph Schumpeter , John Maynard Keynes and became a historian . O'Sullivan's concern is to focus on both the dark and the dark sides of capitalism and to convey this to her students.

Since August 2010, O'Sullivan has been Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva , with a focus on industrialization , corporate and financial history. Her most recent book was published in 2016 and examines the securities markets in the history of US capitalism from 1866 to 1922. Currently (as of 2019) O'Sullivan is working on a history of profit.

Act

O'Sullivan's research distinguishes herself from, for example, the French economist Thomas Piketty , whose book “Capital in the 21st Century” attracted a great deal of attention worldwide in 2014, especially in the USA, and states: “He can follow the trend not explain inequality - because it ignores the profit issue. "

Private life

O'Sullivan's parents ran a grocery store in Dublin, where O'Sullivan helped out at the till as a teenager.

Publications

  • 2018: The intelligent woman's guide to capitalism, in: Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press
  • 2016: Dividends of development. Securities Markets in the History of US Capitalism, 1866-1922, Oxford University Press
  • 2015: Yankee Doodle went to London. Anglo-American breweries and the London securities market, 1888-92, in: The economic history review, Economic history society
  • 2014: A fine failure. Relationship lending, Moses Taylor, and the Joliet Iron & Steel Company, 1869-1888
  • 2010: Finance capital in Chandlerian capitalism
  • 2009: The political economy of global finance capital (in collaboration with Richard Deeg), in: World Politics, Cambridge University Press
  • 2007: Acting out institutional change. Understanding the recent transformation of the French financial system
  • 2007: The expansion of the US stock market, 1885–1930. Historical facts and theoretical fashions
  • 2003: The political economy of comparative corporate governance
  • 2001: Contests for corporate control. Corporate governance and economic performance in the United States and Germany, Oxford

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Mary O'Sullivan, Ph.D. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b c Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Economic historian Mary O'Sullivan: "We still don't know what profit is". Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ Levy Economics Institute: Scholars. Mary O'Sullivan. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Université de Genève, Département d'histoire, économie et société: Mary O'Sullivan. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Sullivan, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Sullivan, Mary A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin