Department of History

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor

Ph.D., 1984, Columbia University

Main Fields: modern European intellectual history; modern Germany

Contact: mullerj@cua.edu

Major publications

Capitalism and the Jews (Princeton University Press, 2010)

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought

(Alfred A. Knopf, 2002; softcover, Anchor, 2003)

Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought From David Hume to the Present

(Princeton University Press, 1997; hardcover and softcover)

Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

(The Free Press, 1993; corrected softcover edition, Princeton University Press, 1995)

The Other God that Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism

(Princeton University Press, 1987; hardcover and softcover)

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Recent course syllabi

Graduate:

Critique of Religion and Religious Critique in Modern European Thought, from Hobbes to Nietzsche

Nationalism and its Consequences in Twentieth Century Europe

Shaping Population

Undergraduate:

Capitalism in modern European thought

Nazism

Europe Since 1945