David Landes
David Saul Landes (April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) 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, by necessity, be a Eurocentric analysis.
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