announcements
The UN History Project has launched a new section, Images of Disability, created by Wonik Son (Harvard College '19).
The Center for History and Economics congratulates Rachel Leow on the 2018 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies for her book Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia.
The Center for History and Economics congratulates Padraic Scanlan on the Wallace K. Ferguson prize for his book Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution.
The Center for History and Economics congratulates Ian Kumekawa on the Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the Best Book on the History of Economics, to be awarded in June 2018 to The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics.
Fahad Bishara, Economics, History and Politics Research Fellow at Harvard in 2012-2014, has been awarded the J. Willard Hurst Prize for the best book in socio-legal history published in 2017 for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean.
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
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry (eds.)
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