Mira Wilkins is Professor of Economics at Florida International University. She has also taught at Columbia University, Union College and Smith College. She is the author of many books and articles, including The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914 1945 (2005), which was a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title and the co-winner of the Hagley Book Prize for the Best Book in Business History. Her latest book (co-authored with William J. Hausman and Peter Hertner) is Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Po...