David Landes
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American economic historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Saul Landes 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.
David Landes's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (1995) (1959)
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (2001) (1325)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (1969) (860)
- The Unbound Prometheus (1969) (760)
- Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (1983) (463)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. (1970) (252)
- French Entrepreneurship and Industrial Growth in the Nineteenth Century (1949) (199)
- Why Europe and the West? Why Not China? (2006) (171)
- What Do Bosses Really Do? (1986) (169)
- The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (2010) (134)
- Why Are We So Rich and They So Poor (1990) (113)
- Favorites of fortune : technology, growth, and economic development since the Industrial Revolution (1993) (101)
- The Gifts of Athena (2017) (98)
- The rise of capitalism (1966) (86)
- Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses (2006) (80)
- Bankers and Pashas (1959) (61)
- What room for accident in history?: explaining big changes by small events (1994) (56)
- Some Thoughts on the Nature of Economic Imperialism (1961) (55)
- Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt (1980) (48)
- Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt. (1960) (46)
- French Business and the Businessman: A Social and Cultural Analysis (1965) (40)
- III. Japan and Europe: Contrasts in Industrialization (1965) (35)
- The Creation of Knowledge and Technique: Today's Task and Yesterday's Experience. (1980) (23)
- Watchmaking: A Case Study in Enterprise and Change (1979) (19)
- The Statistical Study of French Crises (1950) (16)
- The Invention of Enterprise (2012) (15)
- On Avoiding Babel (1978) (12)
- Bleichröders and Rothschilds: The Problem of Continuity in the Family Firm (1993) (11)
- The Jewish MerchantTypology and Stereotypology in Germany (1974) (10)
- Geography as Destiny: A Brief History of Economic Growth (1998) (9)
- ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. By Andre Gunder Frank. Berkeley: University of California Press,1998. Pp. xxix, 416. $55.00, cloth; $19.95 paper (1999) (9)
- Factor Costs and Demand: Determinants of Economic Growth (1965) (8)
- Some further thoughts on accident in history: a reply to Professor Crafts (1995) (8)
- Observations on France: Economy, Society, and Polity (1957) (6)
- The Wealth and powerty of nations : why some are so rich andsome so poor (1998) (6)
- Revolution in time: clock and the making of the modern world (2000) (6)
- Western Europe : the trials of partnership (1977) (6)
- Book-Review - Heavenly Clockwork - the Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China (1961) (5)
- The Paris Bourse (1951) (4)
- The Fable of the Dead Horse; or, the Industrial Revolution Revisited (2018) (4)
- Reply To Mr. Danière and Some Reflections on the Significance of the Debate (1958) (3)
- DEBATE THE ORDERING OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: TIME, WORK AND THE OCCURRENCE OF CROWDS 1790–1835 (1987) (3)
- The Bleichröder Bank: An Interim Report (1960) (3)
- The ‘Great Drain’ and Industrialisation: Commodity Flows from Periphery to Centre in Historical Perspective (1980) (3)
- Western Europe: The Trials of Partnership. Critical Choices for Americans: Vol. VIII (1977) (2)
- Documents of European Economic History. Vol. I. The Process of Industrialization, 1750-1870. (1969) (2)
- Recent Work in the Economic History of Modern France (1958) (2)
- The time of our lives (1990) (2)
- The foundations of European Expansion and Dominion: an Equilibrium model (1981) (2)
- Clocks & the wealth of nations (2003) (2)
- Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Edited by Pat Hudson · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 277 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, and index. $49.50 (1990) (1)
- The Spoilers Foiled: The Exclusion of Prussian Finance from the French Liberation Loan of 1871 (1982) (1)
- The Unbound Prometheus: The interwar years (2003) (1)
- Good Old Economic History@@@The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (1971) (1)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.@@@Economic History of Europe: Twentieth Century. (1970) (1)
- Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo · New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1991. xii + 276 pp. Figures, tables, references, and index. $65.00, ISBN 0-415-06214-4 (1993) (1)
- Reply to Peer Vries and Om Prakash (1999) (1)
- The Entrepreneur in History (2012) (1)
- Introduction. Global Enterprise and Industrial Performance: An Overview (2010) (1)
- Conference on the state of the social sciences (2004) (1)
- Essay Review: Chinese Astronomical Clocks, Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China (1989) (1)
- Comments on Papers by Hohenberg, Mendels, and Mazzaoui (1972) (1)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Closing the gap (2003) (1)
- History as Social Science. The Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey. (1971) (1)
- Session I. The record of the social sciences (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Science, Technology, and the British Industrial "Decline," 1870-1970 David Edgerton (1997) (0)
- BHR volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1979) (0)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Introduction (2003) (0)
- Samuel Roberts, Clock Maker: An Eighteenth-Century Craftsman in a Welsh Rural Community . By W. T. R. Pryce and T. Alun Davies. (Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, Welsh Folk Museum, 1985. xvii + 450 pp. £19.50.) (1986) (0)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Reconstruction and growth since 1945 (2003) (0)
- Economic Progress. Papers and Proceedings of a Round Table Held by the International Economic Association. Edited by Leon H. Dupriez with the assistance of Douglas C. Hague. Louvain: Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, 1955. Pp. 574 (1957) (0)
- BHR volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1966) (0)
- Carlo Cipolla, Renaissance Man, Global Historian (2002) (0)
- Book Review:French Corporative Theory, 1789-1948: A Chapter in the History of Ideas Matthew H. Elbow (1955) (0)
- Economic Growth and Change: How and Why@@@The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present@@@A Theory of Economic History (1972) (0)
- BHR volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1967) (0)
- Preface to the New Edition (2014) (0)
- Literacy - Harvey J. Graff (ed.), Literacy and social development in the West: A reader . (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literature Culture.) Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 340. (1987) (0)
- Short breath and second wind (2003) (0)
- A Chapter in the Financial Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: The Rise of French Deposit Banking (1963) (0)
- Endogenous Growth Theory and Regional Development: A ‘New’ Modeling Approach (2000) (0)
- The Statistical Analysis of Anglo-American Economic Development (1955) (0)
- PSYCHOETHNOGRAPHY: Themes in French Culture: A Preface to a Study of French Community. Rhoda Métraux (1955) (0)
- A History of Europe from the Invasions to the XVI Century. By Henri Pirenne. Introduction by Jan-Albert Goris. New York: University Books [1956]. Pp. xxii, 12–625. $7.50 (1957) (0)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Continental emulation (2003) (0)
- The Wilkins lecture, 1988 hand and mind in time measurement: the contributions of art and science (1989) (0)
- The Unbound Prometheus: The Industrial Revolution in Britain (2003) (0)
- A Historian Looks at Entrepreneurship (2004) (0)
- The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815-1848. By Arthur Louis Dunham. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 516. $7.50 (1957) (0)
- Doing the New History@@@A Behavioral Approach to Historical Analysis@@@Quantitative History: Selected Readings in the Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data@@@History as Social Science (1973) (0)
- Capitalism and French Glassmaking, 1640–1789. By Warren C. Scoville. [University of California Publications in Economics, Volume XV.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1950. Pp. xi, 210. $2.50.) (1950) (0)
- Long Live Afro-Optimism: Interview (2001) (0)
- Sir John Habakkuk (2005) (0)
- Quand l'historien se fait romancier (1989) (0)
- Partes intermutabiles (1985) (0)
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