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Emma Rothschild
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Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member at Harvard Law School. She graduated from Oxford University in 1967, and was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at MIT. From 1978 to 1988, she was an Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society. She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She specialises in 18th century and 19th century history, especially the history of economic thought and economic history. As Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics, she is involved in collaborative research projects, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas and on Visualizing Historical Networks. Recent publications include "Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France" (American Historical Review, October 2014), "The Archives of Universal History" (Journal of World History, September 2008), “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” (Past and Present, August 2006), Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001) and The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
◦ Brief CV
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Brief CV
Emma Rothschild
Work in Progress
An Endless Story, book manuscript in preparation
Commerce and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France, book manuscript in preparation
“Smithianismus and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” to be published in a collection of essays in preparation
Publications
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment
(Harvard University Press, 2001) Italian, Portugese, Chinese translations
Science and Technology in the New Socio-Economic Context (Co-author)
(OECD: 1981)
Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age (Random House, New York: 1973) Italian, Portugese, Japanese translations
Articles and chapters in books
History
"Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France," American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 4 (October, 2014), pp. 1055-1082.
"Histories of Family Health," The Lancet, vol. 383, February 8, 2014
"Faith, Enlightenment and Economics," in Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good, ed. Samuel Gregg and Harold James, Exeter, 2012, pp. 17-23.
"Values, classical political economy and the Portuguese empire," Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 19, issue 2 (June, 2012), pp. 109-119
"Adam Smith in the British Empire," Empire and Modern Political Thought, ed.
Sankar Muthu, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 184-198
“Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8, no. 1 (2011), pp. 193-212
“The Idea of Sustainability: Introduction,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8, no. 1 (2011), pp. 147-151
“Late-Atlantic History,” The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World 1450-1850, ed. Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan, Oxford, 2011, pp. 634-648
“Political Economy,” The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political
Thought, ed. Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys, Cambridge, 2011, pp. 748-779
“The Future of History,” Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization, ed. Karl Grandin, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 280-294
“Adam Smith in the British Empire,” Empire and Modern Political Thought, ed.
Sankar Muthu, Cambridge, forthcoming 2011
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Inner Life," The Adam Smith Review, vol. 5, 2010, pp. 25-36
"Choiseul and the History of France," Waddesdon Miscellanea, vol. 1 (2009),
pp. 6-13
"The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume", Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents,1500-1830, ed. Bernard Bailyn and Patricia Denault, Cambridge, MA, 2009, pp. 405-449
"The Archives of Universal History," Journal of World History, Vol. 19, No. 3
(September 2008), pp. 375-401
"David Hume and the Seagods of the Atlantic," The Atlantic Enlightenment, ed. Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 81-96
"Adam Smith’s Laws," Y a-t-il des lois en économie?, ed. Bernard Delmas, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2007, pp. 37-40
"A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic," Past and Present, Vol. 192 (August 2006), pp. 67-108
"Adam Smith's Economics" (with Amartya Sen), The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, ed. Knud Haakonsen, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 319-365
"Arcs of Ideas: International History and Intellectual History," in Transnationale Geschichte: Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien, ed Gunilla Budde, Sebastian Conrad and Oliver Janz, Göttingen, 2006, pp. 217-226
"Axiom, theorem, corollary &c. ': Condorcet and mathematical economics," Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 25 (2005), pp. 287-302
"Language and Empire, c. 1800," Historical Research, Vol. 78, No. 200 (May 2005), pp. 208-229
"Dibattito su Sentimenti economici," Rivista di Storia Economica, Vol. 20, No. 2 (August 2004), pp. 243-252; symposium on Economic Sentiments
"Dignity or Meanness," The Adam Smith Review, Vol. 1 (2004), pp. 150-164; symposium on Economic Sentiments
"Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces," Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 2004), pp. 3-25
"The English Kopf," The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914, ed. D. Winch and P. O’Brien, Oxford, 2002, pp. 31-60
"La mondialisation en perspective historique," Qu’est-ce que la culture?, ed. Y. Michaud, Paris, 2001, pp. 57-68
"An Alarming Commercial Crisis in 18th Century Angoulême: Sentiments in Economic History," Economic History Review, 1998, Vol. 51, pp. 268-293
"Condorcet and Adam Smith on Education and Instruction," Philosophers on Education, ed. A.O. Rorty, London, 1998, pp. 209-226
"Bruno Hildebrands Kritik an Adam Smith," Bruno Hildebrands 'Die NationalÖkonomie der Gegenwart und Zukunft', ed. Bertram Schefold, Frankfurt, 1998, pp. 133-172
"Condorcet and the Conflict of Values," Historical Journal, 1996, Vol 39, pp. 677-701
"Social Security and Laissez Faire in 18th Century Political Economy," Population and Development Review, December 1995, Vol. 21, pp. 711-744
"Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1994, pp. 319-322
"Psychological Modernity in Historical Perspective," Essays in Honor of Albert Hirschman, Washington, DC, 1994, pp. 99-117
"Commerce and the State: Turgot, Condorcet and Smith," Economic Journal, 1992, Vol. 102, pp. 1197-1210
"Adam Smith and Conservative Economics," Economic History Review, 1992, Vol. 45, pp. 74-96
Other
"The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Society," The New York Review of Books, February 26 2009
"The Age of Words: Histories of Human Security," in Human Security, ed. Yusuke Dan (in Japanese), United Nations University, 2005
"Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers," The New York Review of Books, March 24 2004
"The Last Empire: Security and Globalization in Historical Perspective," Jerome E Levy Occasional Paper, No 5, US Naval War College, 2003
"The politics of globalisation circa 1773," OECD Observer, No. 228 (September 2001), 12-14
"Imagination and Understanding," Council for Science and Technology, United Kingdom, July 2001, pp. 3-25
"Social Security and Laissez-Faire," Boston Review, October 2000, Vol. 25, pp. 11-12
"The Age of Insubordination," Foreign Policy, Summer 2000, No. 119, pp. 46-49
"Globalization and the Return of History," Foreign Policy, Summer 1999, No. 115, pp. 106-116
"The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons of a Road not Taken," Development and Change, April 1996, Vol. 27, pp. 331-351
"Environmental Measurement," Environmental Measurement and Analysis, Kawaguchi, 1996, 11-21
"Echoes of the Malthusian Debate," Population and Development Review, June 1995, Vol. 21, pp. 351-359
"What is Security?," Daedalus, Summer 1995, Vol. 124, pp. 53-98
"The Changing Nature of Security," Issues in Global Governance, London, 1995
"L'économie de la dissuasion - Les armes nucléaires sont-elles chères?," Science, Guerre et Paix, ed. J.J. Salomon, Paris, 1989, pp. 103-135
"The Reagan Economic Legacy," The New York Review of Books, July 21, 1988, pp. 33-41
"The Real Reagan Economy," The New York Review of Books, June 30, 1988, pp. 46-53
"A Divergence Hypothesis," Journal of Development Economics, 1986, Vol. 23, pp. 205-226
"Examiners' Report" (co-author) in Science and Technology Review of Australia (OECD, 1986)
"The Effect of United States Defence Spending on Employment and Output" (with Rebecca Blank), International Labour Review, November 1985, Vol. 124, pp. 677-697
"Science and Society: A Changing Relationship," Science as a Commodity, ed. M. Gibbons and B. Wittrock, Manchester, 1985, pp. 130-142
"Concepts of Security: Deterrence and Common Security," Common Security (SIPRI: 1985)
"Common Security," SIPRI Yearbook, 1984, pp. 583-591
"The Costs of Reaganism," The New York Review of Books, March 15, 1984, pp. 14-17
"Delusions of Deterrence," The New York Review of Books, April 14, 1983, pp. 40-50
"The Philosophy of Reaganism," The New York Review of Books, April 15, 1982, pp. 19-25
"Reagan and the Real America," The New York Review of Books, February 5, 1981, pp. 12-18
"Hangchow Revisited: Food in China and France," The London Review of Books, 1980
"Some Views of Mrs Thatcher's Victory," New York Review of Books, June 28, 1979
"The Arms Boom and How to Stop It," The New York Review of Books, January 20, 1977, pp. 24-30
"Is it Time to End Food for Peace?," The New York Times Magazine, March 13, 1977, pp. 15, 43-48, repr. Why Food Aid?, ed. Vernon W. Ruttan, Baltimore, 1993, pp. 84-94
"Banks: The Politics of Debt," The New York Review of Books, June 24, 1976, pp. 25-32
"Banks: The Coming Crisis," The New York Review of Books, May 27, 1976, pp. 16-21
"Food Politics," Foreign Affairs, 1976, Vol. 54, pp. 285-307
"The Boom in the Death Business," The New York Review of Books, October 5, 1975, pp. 7-12
"How Doomed are We?," The New York Review of Books, June 26, 1975, pp. 31-34
"World Food Economy," The New Yorker, 1975
"Running Out of Food," The New York Review of Books, September 19, 1974, pp. 30-31
"The Politics of Food," The New York Review of Books, May 16, 1974, pp. 16-17
"Concocting the Next Crisis," The New York Review of Books, April 4, 1974, pp. 30-32
"Where the Next Energy Crisis is Pushing Us," The New York Review of Books, January 24, 1974, pp. 38-40
"Running Out of Gas," The New York Review of Books, November 1, 1973, pp. 34-35
"Illusions about Energy," The New York Review of Books, August 9, 1973, pp. 29-34
"What is the Energy Crisis?," The New York Review of Books, July 19, 1973, pp. 23-28