Philip Hoffman

Philip T. Hoffman is an American economic historian who is the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and History, emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. His work combines economic theory with historical evidence to explain long-run economic growth, the development of financial and political institutions, and the rise of the West, most prominently in Why Did Europe Conquer the World? (2015) and in three books on French credit markets written with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. He served as president of the Economic History Association in 2013–2014 and of the Social Science History Association in 2019–2020, and edited The Journal of Economic History from 2006 to 2010.

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