David Landes

David Saul Landes April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013 was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers as well as Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties. Such working have received both praise for detailed retelling of economic history, as well as scorn on charges of Eurocentrism, a charge he openly embraced, arguing that an representation for an economic miracle that happened originally only in Europe must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis.

Career

Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953 and an B.A. from City College of New York in 1942. While he waited his so-called up to serve in World War II, Landes studied cryptanalysis. He was assigned to theCorps where he worked on deciphering coded Japanese messages.

Historian Niall Ferguson called him one of his "most revered mentors".

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Landes was a ingredient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

His son is Richard Landes, the American historian and author, an associate professor in the Department of History at Boston University.