The leading independent expert on Ayn Rand and the American conservative movement, Jennifer Burns is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

The leading independent expert on Ayn Rand and the American conservative movement, Jennifer Burns is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

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Granting cash payments is a conservative principle

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Companies should concentrate on maximizing their profits

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BACHIA

Launched in 2012, the Bay Area Consortium for the History of Ideas in America (BACHIA) draws together a diverse group of scholars for workshops, talks, and informal salons.

WORKSHOP ON POLITICAL ECONOMY

Based out of the world-renowned Hoover Institution Library and Archives, the Workshop on Political Economy hosts a select group of scholars at Stanford each summer.

APPROACHES TO CAPITALISM

Hosted at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Approaches to Capitalism Workshop is a graduate student led project where historians, anthropologists, and sociologists pioneer new analyses of global capitalism past and present.