Mark R. Wilson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he also directs the Capitalism Studies interdisciplinary program.
He is the author of the books The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), the latter the winner of the Hagley Prize and the Ralph Gomory Prize. Wilson is coeditor, with Jennifer Mittelstadt, of a forthcoming volume of essays, The Military and the Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). A former National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, he has also served as a trustee of the Business History Conference.
His project, “The Degradation of Defense: The Transformation of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, 1950–2025,” will offer a new history of the business and politics of the U.S. defense sector — the so-called military-industrial complex — and its global connections, from the 1950s to the present day.
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