next online seminars
BARRIERS AND BORDERS
7 October 2021
Thomas Simpson (Cambridge) and
Sören Urbansky (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Border-Making: State-Building and Geopolitics
JOINT CENTER
13 October 2021
Vanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley)
Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore
announcements
The Joint Center for History and Economics and the Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics are delighted to announce the Prize Fellows for the academic years 2021/2022 to 2023/2024. They are: Elsa Genard (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Jacob Moscona (MIT).
The Joint Center for History and Economics and the Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics are delighted to announce the inaugural CHEP-EHP Fellows at the Centre for History and Economics – Paris and Harvard. They are: Aditya Balasubramanian (ANU), Jingyi Huang (UCLA) and Lola Zappi (Sciences Po).
David K. Richards (1939-2015) was a friend and adviser to the Joint Center for History and Economics, at Cambridge and at Harvard, over many years. He was a participant in Center events, a wonderful observer of economic history, and, with Carol Richards, an immensely generous supporter of the Center's work. One of the many interviews with him, in Barron's, began, "Of all the people we interview, David Richards strikes the deepest chord with readers. His interviews seem to be the ones that get tacked to walls or saved in a desk drawer, treasures of insight and wisdom." We miss him greatly.
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The Joint Center for History and Economics is based at Harvard University and at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge. It was established at Harvard in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic thought, economic history, and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Center is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.
The Center is supported by a generous gift from the David K. and Carol Richards Fund. In conjunction with its counterpart Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Harvard Center undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of undergraduate and graduate students. It provides the base for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas, on Energy History, and on Visualizing Historical Networks, as well as for the History Project and the Prize Fellowship Program in Economics, History and Politics.
Recent Center Books
Real Estate and Global Urban History
Alexia Yates
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Emma Rothschild
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