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Kathleen Thelen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and faculty director of MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germany, and MIT-Switzerland, analyzes the historical context that caused the U.S. retail sector to shift from small, independent merchants to retail giants in her new book “Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy.”

Thelen discusses her book in an article by MIT News and an episode of the Ideas Podcast by Princeton University Press.