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| Sophus Reinert
Spring 2020, Paper. "Using materials from the important collection of Medici manuscripts donated to Harvard Business School by Harry Gordon Selfridge, this paper explores the geopolitics of the transformation of raw wool into finished cloth, and the role played in that process by Medici entrepreneurs, their guild, and their government. It aims to show that the history of political economy cannot truly be understood without business history.…
| Sophus Reinert
March 2020, Paper: "On May 27, 1776, the Scottish immigrant John Robertson Brand, sometimes known as John Brandt, was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society in the church of the fishing village of Hustad, south of the Trondheim Fjord in central Norway. Though below the Arctic Circle, Hustad lies slightly off the sixty-third parallel north, which runs through Canada’s Nunavut and Yukon Territories, the Davis Strait, and…
| Sophus Reinert
Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business. Rebecca Henderson, Sophus Reinert, January 2020, Case, "Writing Group) prepared the original version of this note "Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business" HBS No. 320032 which is being - replaced by this verion prepared by Professors Rebecca M. Henderson and Sophus A. Reinert and Research Associate Mariana Oseguera as the basis for … "…
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Historical Political Economy. Sophus Reinert, August 17, 2018, Book Chapter, "This chapter explores the cyclicality of historical awareness in economics. It shows how, over the centuries, there have been numerous moments when a tendency toward theoretical abstraction has resulted in real-world catastrophes which, in turn, have inspired a return to more historically-grounded approaches to economic inquiry and policy."…
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New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy. Sophus Reinert, 2018, Book, "This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy brings together a select…
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The Harvard Research Center in Entrepreneurial History and the Daimonic Entrepreneur. Sophus Reinert, 2017, Paper, "This paper sketches the intellectual history of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, founded at Harvard in 1948, which helped established the contours of business history as a discipline. This history was shaped by the rivalry between N. S. B. Gras, the “father of business history,” and Arthur H. Cole, which defined…
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The Way to Wealth around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism, Sophus A. Reinert, February 2015, Paper. "'Time,' Benjamin Franklin professed poignantly in his 1748 Advice to a Young Tradesman, 'is money,' an iconic statement that, by commodifying existence itself, helped articulate the emotive core of modern capitalism. Indeed, few historical figures today enjoy a more prominent place in the cultural and…