Director, Centre for History and Economics
Fellow, Magdalene College
Magdalene College
Cambridge CB3 0AG
Cambridge CB3 0AG
Email:
er10005@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
01223 3 31197
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
Eighteenth-century France and Britain, the history of globalization
Research Supervision
History of economic thought, economic history since 1750
Key Publications
- "Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France," American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 4 (2014), pp. 1055-1082
- 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 translation (Il Mulino, 2003); Portugese translation (Record, 2003); Chinese translation 2011
- "Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact," Modern Intellectual History, vol. 8, no. 1 (2011), pp. 193-212
- "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