Dr. Sophus Reinert

Biography

Sophus Reinert is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on the global history of business, capitalism, and political economy, from the Middle Ages to today's emerging markets. He particularly investigates the questions of international competition and the role of governments in economic development and decline. His work examines indigenous entrepreneurship and the relationships between capitalism and slavery. Reinert is currently an author in the area of Renaissance Economics and is also engaged with themes surrounding globalization. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge, having also completed an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history. Before joining Harvard, he was a Carl Schurz Fellow at the Krupp Chair for Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and he has been a research fellow at the Einaudi Foundation in Turin, Italy, as well as an affiliated lecturer in history at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Reinert has won several prestigious awards, including the George L. Mosse Prize for his book 'Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy', highlighting his distinguished impact on the field of economic history.

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