David Landes (Harvard University)
David Landes, Professor Emeritus of History and Economics at Harvard University, has forged a diverse career as an economist and a specialist in the modern history of Western Europe and the Middle East. He joined the faculty of the Harvard History Department in 1964. He is the author of major works such as Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World< (Belknap Press, 1983) and The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 1969). He was also under consideration for the Samuel Johnson Prize in Non-fiction for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some are So Poor (Norton, 1999).