Hans-Joachim Voth
Hans-Joachim Voth (born March 31, 1968) is a German
Early life and education
Voth studied at Bonn and Freiburg Universities, before receiving an M.Sc. at
Career
Voth was a Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1995 to 1996. He started to work at the international management consultancy
Voth served as a joint managing editor of the
Research
Voth has published three academic books:
- Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II [with Mauricio Drelichman], Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700 [with Peter Temin], Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Time and Work in England, 1750-1830, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
In addition, he has written three trade books and published more than 60 academic articles on economics, financial markets, and economic history.[7] His most recent research is on state capacity,[8][9] long-run growth,[10] the persistence of culture, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence[11][12] and the Great Depression and the German Interwar Economy.[13] Voth has also written about time use in industrializing societies.[14][1][15][16]
Distinctions and honors
Voth has won several prizes. In addition to two prizes for best dissertation and election to the Econometric Society in 2022, he won a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship, the Larry Neal Prize for best paper in Explorations in Economic History in 2010-11 (with Mauricio Drelichman), the Albert Hirschman Award for best writing in global political economy, and the Montias Prize for best paper in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2020-21 (with Jacopo Ponticelli). His research has attracted external funding of more than €4.3 million, including a European Research Council Advanced Grant. He has delivered the Tawney Memorial Lecture at the EHS, Cambridge, April 2011, the Sir John Hicks Lecture in Oxford, 2016, and the NFR Crafts Lecture in Warwick (2021), as well as keynotes at numerous conferences and workshops.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-139-47308-8.
- ^ Time to give the Black Death plague its due - Winnipeg Free Press
- ^ https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/de/index.html
- ^ "People".
- ^ https://www.econometricsociety.org/society/organization-and-governance/fellows/current
- ^ " Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'". Der Spiegel, August 31, 2011. Interview by Alexander Jung and Gerhard Spörl
- ^ A shackled revolution? The Bubble Act and financial regulation in eighteenth-century England : Review of Keynesian Economics
- ^ https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2017/04/27/the-threat-of-war-can-bring-much-needed-investment
- ^ https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/138/1/465/6623686
- ^ https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/03/12/throughout-history-pandemics-have-had-profound-economic-effects
- ^ https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2011/10/22/unrest-in-peace
- ^ Jung, Alexander (August 31, 2011). "Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ^ "Philip G. Dwyer, ed. Modern Prussian History, 1830-1947". Reviewed by Anthony J. Steinhoff. H-Net Reviews
- ^ "Nice Work if you can get out". Economist. April 22, 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-674-73702-0.
- ISBN 978-1-139-49512-7.