The new Center for History and Economics was established at Harvard University and King’s College (Cambridge, UK) in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, through the history of economic and social thought, through economic history, and through the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the center is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.

In conjunction with its counterpart Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, the center at Harvard will undertake research projects and organize workshops, seminars, and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It will build on the current research projects at both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Centre for History and Economics, including the Mellon project on exchanges of economic and political ideas since 1750. Emma Rothschild, the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, directs the Center for History and Economics and co-directs the King’s College Centre. The center’s executive committee consists of Lizabeth Cohen, Robert Darnton, Dale Jorgenson, Charles Rosenberg, Emma Rothschild, Elaine Scarry, and Richard Tuck. The center’s affiliated graduate students are Angus Burgin, Philipp Lehmann, and Julia Stephens, and the program coordinator is Meg LeMay.

For more information visit:
http://fas.harvard.edu/~histecon