I am also developing a second book project that extends my ongoing interest in literary and economic history. The project reconstructs the Cold War evolution of neoliberalism and the ascendance of the so-called knowledge economy by turning to Asian American literature to uncover what I call the “Asian American character of human capital, logistics, and automation.” A chapter from this project, on how Chicago School human capital theory remade the model minority myth, was published in the August 2023 issue of Representations.