Herman Mark Schwartzis Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of In the Dominions of Debt, States vs. Markets, and Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble . He has edited several volumes and published numerous articles on economic development in the nineteenth century, the development of the global economy since 1500, the marketization of the welfare state, and the causes and consequences of the US housing bubble. A record of his publications can be found here.