Books by Emma Rothschild
Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, and Honorary Professor of History and Economics at Cambridge University. She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Her latest book is The Inner Life of Empires.
“It’s just a delightful book, looking at Smith and Condorcet. The Marquis de Condorcet was one of these great believers in Utopia and in progress and in the Enlightenment. He ran afoul of the Terror during the French Revolution.” Read more...
The Best Books on the Classical Economists
Brad DeLong, Economist
Interviews with Emma Rothschild
The best books on Economic History, recommended by Emma Rothschild
In time of economic crisis, studying the past can teach us much about the world economy today, says economic historian Emma Rothschild.
Interviews where books by Emma Rothschild were recommended
The best books on British Empire, recommended by David Cannadine
Historian David Cannadine tells us why it’s less interesting to argue about whether the British Empire was a force for good or ill, than to understand how it worked and why it fell apart. He suggests a reading list to get us started.
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The Passions and the Interests
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The Worldly Philosophers
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The Classical Economists Revisited
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Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
by Jonathan Sperber
The Best Books on the Classical Economists, recommended by Brad DeLong
The Best Books on the Classical Economists, recommended by Brad DeLong
They were an eclectic bunch, including, among others, a stock market speculator, a moral philosopher, a cleric, a lawyer and a journalist. From the late-18th to the mid-19th century, they provided the first systematic explanations of how economies work, where they fail and how they might be made to work better. Here, Brad DeLong, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, introduces the classical economists, and suggests books to read to learn more about them and what they were trying to achieve.
