!!David Landes
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__Address:__
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Harvard University\\
Phone: (617) 495-8326\\
Department of Economics\\
Fax : (617)495-8570\\
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__Professional Preparation__
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*City College of New York A.B.  1942
*Harvard University A.M.  1943
*Harvard University Ph.D. 1953
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__Academic Appointments__
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Harvard University\\
Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus 1996 - Present
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__Fellowships__
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Harvard University\\
Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Senior 1950 -1953\\
Fellow of the Society of Fellows 1984-1992\\
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__Prizes__
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*2000 First Laureate, Prix European du Livre d’Economie, for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
*2004 Leonardo da Vinci Prize, Society for the History of Technology, for research in the history of technology and engineering
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__Synergistic Activities__
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Professor Landes’ scholarship is inherently interdisciplinary: he has examined critical issues in international economic development through the lens of a historian over the course of his long and distinguished career.  His pivotal work, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (published in 1998, after his retirement) takes on the timely question of why some societies experienced a period of explosive economic growth, while others did not.  Other projects address the role that clocks; culture; and technological change have played in the trajectory of economic development and success.
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The relevance of Professor Landes’ contributions has been recognized by numerous honorary degrees and memberships, including the following:
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__Honory Degrees__
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*Docteur honoris causa, Universite de Lille 1973
*Docteur es Sciences economiques et sociales, honoris causa Universite de Geneve 1990
*Doctor, honoris causa, Universiy of Ancona 1990
*Docteur es Sciences economiques, Uniersite de Neuchatel 1991
*Docteur honoris causa, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich 1993
*Doctor honoris causa, Bard College 1999
*Professor honoris causa, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Jouy-en 2000
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__Honorary Memberships, Learned Societies__
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National Academy of Science; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society; British Academy; Royal Historical Society; Koninklijke Academie van Belgie; Accademia dei Lincei