What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group with Zoe Sherman
Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 at 3 pm ET (UTC-5) / 20:00 GMT
What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group
Zoe Sherman will present her work in progress, Capital, Trademark, and the Properties of Intellect. The paper is part of a project exploring capitalism and the marketplace of ideas, building on the author’s expertise in connecting economics and culture. REGISTER HERE to receive the zoom link and the reading.
Zoe Sherman is a political economist and economic historian. She holds a Ph.D. from UMass-Amherst, was a professor of economics at Merrimack College for 10 years, and has been a member of the Dollars & Sense collective since 2014. She is the author of Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention: The US Advertising Industry’s Turn-or-the-Twentieth Century Transition (Routledge 2020). Her recent writing for Dollars & Sense is available here.
