Chair

University of Toronto

Calculating the Value of the Future in the Early Modern Past

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Weather Prophets and Cotton Profits: Forecasts, Markets, and the State in the Gilded Age

Rutgers University

Calculations and the Futures of Student Debt

Chair

New York University

The Politics of Data: Eugenics, Race, and Life Insurance in Interwar America

Colgate University

Automating Away the Intermediary: The Techno-Politics of Market Shaping

University of Leicester

The Gaming of Chance: Online Poker Software and the Potentialization of Uncertainty

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair

The New School

The Pricing of Progressivism: Irving Fisher and the Spirit of Capitalism

Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University

Visualizing Uncertainties vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Albert Hirschman and Project Evaluation

Loyola University, Maryland

Capital Calculated: Thomas Piketty in Historical Context

Columbia University