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Shane Hamilton

@shamilto.bsky.social
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Historian, swimmer, reader. Agribusiness, strategy, sustainable food systems.

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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#bhc2026 what happened to the organizational synthesis? Drawing a big audience in a big lecture theatre
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My dept @ Copenhagen Business School) has an open PhD scholarship in business humanities. Do you know a potential candidate? An excellent scholar in history who would thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary business school setting? Please tell them to get in touch www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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PhD scholarship in Business Humanities at CBS
PhD scholarship in Business Humanities at the Department of Business Humanities and LawCopenhagen Business invites applications for one vacant PhD scholarship within business humanities at the Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL). The expected start date is 1 September 2026.Firmly rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship, the business humanities research areas of the department include:
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David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
#BHC 2026 is coming up! Don't forget to register by March 16 and get that ETA for the UK. Looking forward to talking about the early modern #offshore and seeing everyone in London. #bizhis #econsky #history #18thc
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
So pleased to have this brilliant book physically in my hand today! Many thanks to @etshermer.bsky.social for intellectual and organizational leadership on this, and fellow series editors Kim Phillips-Fein and Andrew Wender Cohen for helping usher this into print.
Cover of Work, Capitalism, & Democracy: The United States since the New Deal, edited by Ellie Shermer
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
With a listening room all to myself tonight, I played Tom Waits’s “trilogy” in order on vinyl: Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank’s Wild Years. It was transcendent. Would welcome suggestions for similar musical deep dives, any genre welcome.
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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🌾What can today’s policymakers + food innovators learn from Britain’s postwar Agricultural Revolution? Join us for a workshop exploring lessons from farming rapid transformation after 1940 + it's relevance for the future of food. 🔗 buff.ly/Vx6JWBE @shamilto.bsky.social @sabineclarke.bsky.social
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Benjamin Soskis @bensoskis.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The latest case study has just been published in the Urban Institute's History of Philanthropy initiative, supported by Open Philanthropy. It's on the farm animal welfare movement's corporate campaigns, by @shamilto.bsky.social at University of York. www.openphilanthropy.org/research/a-c...
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A case study on corporate campaigns for farm animal welfare | Open Philanthropy
In recent decades, the farm animal welfare movement has improved conditions for hundreds of millions of animals through corporate campaigns. A new case study, commissioned by Open Philanthropy as part...
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I just bought every vinyl I could find of Ezra Collective. Watch the Glastonbury performance if you can, they are not only amazing musicians but amazing people.
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We are delighted to publish this Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise." Contributions from Alexander Field, Brian Cheffins, Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Naomi Lamoureaux & Dan Raff: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Roundtable Review | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Roundtable Review
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Really excited to see this compelling Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" now out online at @entandsoc.bsky.social!
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We're loving this re-skeet!
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
One of my favorite lyrics of Waits/Brennan: Come down off the cross / We could use the wood. Feels more relevant now than ever, which I suppose it always will.
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Scott Reynolds Nelson @nelsonhist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats
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School for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🍊 Why is orange juice "super weird?" Asks @philedwardsinc.bsky.social, after "stumbling across" the work of business historian, @shamilto.bsky.social, whose work on the "cold capitalism" of frozen concentrated orange juice inspired this YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSQ... #YorkResearch
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Frozen orange juice is actually super weird
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
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Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Only two days now until @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual meeting 2025. Alas, @entandsoc.bsky.social editor @andrewpopp.bsky.social can't make it this year but the journal will be well represented by associate editors @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, @shamilto.bsky.social, Ai Hisano & Andrea Lluch!
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
One of the best ways of extending life is available to almost all and it’s cheap: cycle commuting.” Rather liking Forbes these days. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A little piece with Errol Schweizer (former VP of Whole Foods) on the historical significance of the blocked Kroger-Albertsons merger grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...
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Grocery Update #39: The High Cost of Cheap Food. And The Historic Halting Of A Grocery Merger.
Also: An Autumn Apple Smackdown. Because We Love Apples.
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Very important and potentially exciting news on the temporary block of the Kroger-Albertsons merger. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger
The Federal Trade Commission notched a victory in its efforts to block the supermarket merger over concerns about harm to shoppers and workers.
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My family has no quirks. Other than their insistence on having at least two shakers of shichimi togarashi seasoning on the table at all times.
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Was surprised to learn Freakonomics has republished the 2019 episode, “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War,” focused on my book, Supermarket U.S.A: Food and Power in The Cold War Farms Race. You can listen and find the transcript on their website here.
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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - Freakonomics
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - Freakonomics
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m pretty sure I’m not a middle class woman of a certain age, but I am also pretty sure blaming others for your own egregious behavior is not a good PR strategy, nor does it meet basic ethical standards www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Outrage as Gregg Wallace calls accusers ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
BBC faces questions after revelations that it received complaints about MasterChef star over period of 12 years
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History can now be here @entandsoc.bsky.social - please spread the word (and let's hope it does better in attracting followers than I have!)
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Shane Hamilton @shamilto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
UK “free” trade discussions raise the specter of chlorine-washed chicken. But how is UK poultry produced? Andrew Godley and I wrote a piece addressing the paradoxical standards that underly modern agrifood systems — we want fair, healthy, sustainable food, but … doi.org/10.1080/0007...
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Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards
This paper uses a historical case study of the emergence of a set of agrifood standards to explore the historical development of strategic paradoxes. The paper demonstrates the value of historical ...
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