Michael J. Douma is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and an Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he is director of the Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. He is the author of four books, including most recently, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2025) and editor of five more. He teaches courses on economic history, globalization, and capitalism.