He specializes in economic history, business history, and the intellectual history of capitalism. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the global spread of Fordism in the interwar years. Other research projects concern the political history of the early American automobile industry, the transformation of the world economic order in the 1930s, and comparative perspectives on American economic development since the Civil War. Link earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.