Nationality United States Fields Economic history Role Author | Name David Landes Institution Harvard University | |
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Born April 29, 1924 ( 1924-04-29 ) New York City Alma mater Harvard University
City College of New York Awards Docteur honoris causa, Universite de Lille, France, 1973
Docteur es Sciences economiques et sociales, honoris causa, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland, 1990
Doctor, honoris causa, University of Ancona, 1990
Docteur es Sciences economiques, Universite de Neuchatel, 1991
Docteur honoris causa, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1993
Doctor honoris causa, Bard College, 1999
Professor honoris causa, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Jouy-en-Josas, 2000 Died August 17, 2013, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States Education Harvard University, City College of New York Influenced Niall Ferguson, Jeffrey Herf, Jeffrey Sachs Books The Wealth and Poverty of, The Unbound Prometheus, Revolution in Time, Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfo, Bankers and Pashas: I Similar People Joel Mokyr, Henry Rosovsky, Charles Tilly, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Botstein | ||
The wealth and poverty of nations by david landes
David Saul Landes (usually cited as David S. Landes; April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers and Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties. Such works have received both praise for detailed retelling of economic history, as well as scorn on charges of Eurocentrism, a charge he openly embraced, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis.
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Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953 and an A.B. from City College of New York in 1942.
The historian Niall Ferguson called him one of his "most revered mentors".
Landes had a scholarly disagreement with Stephen Marglin over the Industrial Revolution.
His son is Richard Landes, the American historian and author, an associate professor in the Department of History at Boston University.