David Landes
David Landes · Economics & Business
Economist
1924, New York City, United States — 2013, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States
United States
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David Landes was an American economic historian at Harvard, author of The Unbound Prometheus on the Industrial Revolution and the sweeping The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998), which argued for the role of culture, institutions and technology in explaining why some nations grew rich. His work was central to debates on long-run economic development. He was Jewish.
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