István Hont
Economics historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, István Hont was a Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought, University Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. Hont was supervised as a doctoral student at Oxford by Hugh Trevor Roper. He was elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1978. From 1978 to 1984 he directed a King's College Research Centre project 'Political Economy and Society 1750–1850' with Michael Ignatieff, out of which grew their co-edited volume Wealth and Virtue. Hont was invited to be a professor in political thought at Columbia University, and was a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1993–4., but remained at Cambridge until his death. He and Raymond Geuss organized the Cambridge Seminars in Political Thought and Intellectual History for 2007/8, attracting a range of international scholars to participate in the seminar series.
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