Jump to content

Hans-Joachim Voth: Difference between revisions

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
 
(35 intermediate revisions by 16 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|German economic historian (born 1968)}}
'''Hans-Joachim Voth''' (born March 31, 1968) is a German [[economic historian]].<ref name="Vries2008">{{cite book|author=Jan de Vries|title=The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMhg4FcRU_oC&pg=PA91|date=26 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-47308-8|pages=91–}}</ref><ref>[http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/time-to-give-the-black-death-plague-its-due-197265611.html Time to give the Black Death plague its due - Winnipeg Free Press<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 2014 he is a professor of economics at the [[University of Zurich]].
'''Hans-Joachim Voth''' (born March 31, 1968) is a German [[economic historian]].<ref name="Vries2008">{{cite book|author=Jan de Vries|title=The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMhg4FcRU_oC&pg=PA91|date=26 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-47308-8|pages=91–}}</ref><ref>[http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/time-to-give-the-black-death-plague-its-due-197265611.html Time to give the Black Death plague its due - Winnipeg Free Press<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He joined the [[University of Zurich]] economics faculty in 2014 and has been the Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/de/index.html |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=www.ubscenter.uzh.ch |language=de}}</ref> since 2017.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/about/people.html | title=People }}</ref> In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Fellows |url=http://www.econometricsociety.org/society/organization-and-governance/fellows/current |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=www.econometricsociety.org |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Voth studied at [[Oxford University]].<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-historian-hans-joachim-voth-the-euro-can-t-survive-in-its-current-form-a-783281.html " Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'"]. ''Der Spiegel'', August 31, 2011. Interview by Alexander Jung and Gerhard Spörl</ref> He graduated with a Ph.D. in 1996.
Voth studied at Bonn and Freiburg Universities, before receiving an M.Sc. at [[Oxford University]] in 1996.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-historian-hans-joachim-voth-the-euro-can-t-survive-in-its-current-form-a-783281.html " Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'"]. ''Der Spiegel'', August 31, 2011. Interview by Alexander Jung and Gerhard Spörl</ref> After a stint at the [[European University Institute]] in Florence, he graduated with a Ph.D. from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1996. His dissertation won both the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for best dissertation in international economic history from the Economic History Association (EHA) in 1996 and the 1999 Gino Luzzatto Prize for best dissertation by the European Historical Economics Society (EHES).


==Career==
==Career==
Since 2003, Voth was a full professor of economics at [[Pompeu Fabra University]]. He was also a Research Professor at the [[Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies]]. In 2014 he became a professor of macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Zurich.
Voth was a Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1995 to 1996. He started to work at the international management consultancy [[McKinsey]] in 1996, serving clients in the financial sector. After a visiting professorship at the [[Stanford]] Economics Department (1997/98), Voth joined [[Pompeu Fabra University]] in 1998. Since 2003, Voth was a full professor of economics at [[Pompeu Fabra University]]. He was also a Research Professor at ICREA, the [[Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies]]. and a Research Affiliate at [[CREI]]. In 2001-02 and 2002–03, he was a visiting professor at the Economics Department, MIT. In 2014, he left UPF to become a professor of macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Zurich.


⚫
Voth served as a joint managing editor of the [[Economic Journal]] (2015–21), an editor of [[Explorations in Economic History]] (2013–15), an Associate Editor of the [[Quarterly Journal of Economics]] (2011–21) and of the [[Journal of Economic Growth]], and of the [[European Review of Economic History]] (2008–12). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at the [[Centre for Economic Policy Research]].
Voth has researched and written about time management in industrial societies.<ref name="Vries2008">{{cite book|author=Jan de Vries|title=The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMhg4FcRU_oC&pg=PA91|date=26 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-47308-8|pages=91–}}</ref><ref name="Ogle2015">{{cite book|author=Vanessa Ogle|title=The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiTOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT202|date=12 October 2015|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-73702-0|pages=202–}}</ref><ref name="Muldrew2011">{{cite book|author=Craig Muldrew|title=Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj9p-hnfu3EC&pg=PA291|date=3 February 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49512-7|pages=291–}}</ref>


==Research==
Voth writes and lectures about the history of economics.<ref>[http://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/roke/1-3/roke.2013.03.04.xml A shackled revolution? The Bubble Act and financial regulation in eighteenth-century England : Review of Keynesian Economics<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His most recent research is on persistence of culture over the long run, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence<ref name=Spiegel>{{cite news|last=Jung|first=Alexander|title=Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-historian-hans-joachim-voth-the-euro-can-t-survive-in-its-current-form-a-783281.html|accessdate=13 February 2013|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=August 31, 2011 – 12:34 PM}}</ref> and the [[Great Depression]] and the German Interwar Economy.<ref>[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=7275 "Philip G. Dwyer, ed. Modern Prussian History, 1830-1947"]. Reviewed by Anthony J. Steinhoff. ''H-Net Reviews''</ref>
Voth has published three academic books:
* [https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691151496/lending-to-the-borrower-from-hell Lending to the Borrower from Hell]: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II [with Mauricio Drelichman], Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/prometheus-shackled-9780199944279?cc=es&lang=en& Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700 [with Peter Temin<nowiki>]</nowiki>], Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/Time_and_Work_in_England_1750_1830.html?id=APYDRo_ATicC Time and Work in England, 1750-1830], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
In addition, he has written three trade books and published more than 60 academic articles on economics, financial markets, and economic history.<ref>[http://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/roke/1-3/roke.2013.03.04.xml A shackled revolution? The Bubble Act and financial regulation in eighteenth-century England : Review of Keynesian Economics<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> His most recent research is on state capacity,<ref>{{Cite news |title=The threat of war can bring much-needed investment |url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2017/04/27/the-threat-of-war-can-bring-much-needed-investment |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Voth |first=Hans-Joachim |date=2022-06-30 |title=New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II |url=https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/138/1/465/6623686?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false |access-date=2024-07-10}}</ref> long-run growth,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Throughout history, pandemics have had profound economic effects |url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/03/12/throughout-history-pandemics-have-had-profound-economic-effects |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref> the persistence of culture, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence<ref>{{Cite news |title=Unrest in peace |url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2011/10/22/unrest-in-peace |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref name=Spiegel>{{cite news|last=Jung|first=Alexander|title=Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-historian-hans-joachim-voth-the-euro-can-t-survive-in-its-current-form-a-783281.html|accessdate=13 February 2013|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=August 31, 2011 }}</ref> and the [[Great Depression]] and the German Interwar Economy.<ref>{{Citation |last=Steinhoff |first=Anthony J. |title=Review of Dwyer, Philip G., ed., Modern Prussian History, 1830-1947 |date= |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=7275 |access-date=2024-07-10 |publisher=H-German, H-Review |language=en}}</ref> Voth has also written about time use in industrializing societies.<ref name=Economist2014>{{cite news|title=Nice Work if you can get out|url=https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2014/04/22/nice-work-if-you-can-get-out.html|accessdate=4 January 2022|newspaper=Economist|date=April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Vries2008">{{cite book|author=Jan de Vries|title=The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMhg4FcRU_oC&pg=PA91|date=26 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-47308-8|pages=91–}}</ref><ref name="Ogle2015">{{cite book|author=Vanessa Ogle|title=The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiTOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT202|date=12 October 2015|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-73702-0|pages=202–}}</ref><ref name="Muldrew2011">{{cite book|author=Craig Muldrew|title=Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj9p-hnfu3EC&pg=PA291|date=3 February 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49512-7|pages=291–}}</ref>


==Distinctions and honors==
⚫
Voth is the editor of [[Explorations in Economic History]], an Associate Editor of the [[Quarterly Journal of Economics]] and of the [[Journal of Economic Growth]], and the former editor of the [[Journal of Economic History]]. He is a Research Fellow of the [[Centre for Economic Policy Research]] and a member of [[CREI]].
Voth has won several prizes. In addition to two prizes for best dissertation and election to the Econometric Society in 2022, he won a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship, the Larry Neal Prize for best paper in Explorations in Economic History in 2010-11 (with Mauricio Drelichman), the Albert Hirschman Award for best writing in global political economy, and the Montias Prize for best paper in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2020-21 (with Jacopo Ponticelli). His research has attracted external funding of more than €4.3 million, including a [[European Research Council]] Advanced Grant. He has delivered the Tawney Memorial Lecture at the EHS, Cambridge, April 2011, the Sir John Hicks Lecture in Oxford, 2016, and the NFR Crafts Lecture in Warwick (2021), as well as keynotes at numerous conferences and workshops.


==References==
==References==
Line 28: Line 35:
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Economic historians]]
[[Category:Economic historians]]
[[Category:German historians]]
[[Category:20th-century German historians]]
[[Category:University of Zurich faculty]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Zurich]]
[[Category:Economics journal editors]]
[[Category:Economics journal editors]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]]
[[Category:21st-century German historians]]

Latest revision as of 07:20, 10 July 2024

Hans-Joachim Voth (born March 31, 1968) is a German economic historian.[1][2] He joined the University of Zurich economics faculty in 2014 and has been the Scientific Director of the UBS Center for Economics in Society[3] since 2017.[4] In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[5]

Early life and education

[edit]

Voth studied at Bonn and Freiburg Universities, before receiving an M.Sc. at Oxford University in 1996.[6] After a stint at the European University Institute in Florence, he graduated with a Ph.D. from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1996. His dissertation won both the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for best dissertation in international economic history from the Economic History Association (EHA) in 1996 and the 1999 Gino Luzzatto Prize for best dissertation by the European Historical Economics Society (EHES).

Career

[edit]

Voth was a Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1995 to 1996. He started to work at the international management consultancy McKinsey in 1996, serving clients in the financial sector. After a visiting professorship at the Stanford Economics Department (1997/98), Voth joined Pompeu Fabra University in 1998. Since 2003, Voth was a full professor of economics at Pompeu Fabra University. He was also a Research Professor at ICREA, the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. and a Research Affiliate at CREI. In 2001-02 and 2002–03, he was a visiting professor at the Economics Department, MIT. In 2014, he left UPF to become a professor of macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Zurich.

Voth served as a joint managing editor of the Economic Journal (2015–21), an editor of Explorations in Economic History (2013–15), an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011–21) and of the Journal of Economic Growth, and of the European Review of Economic History (2008–12). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Research

[edit]

Voth has published three academic books:

In addition, he has written three trade books and published more than 60 academic articles on economics, financial markets, and economic history.[7] His most recent research is on state capacity,[8][9] long-run growth,[10] the persistence of culture, sovereign debt in historical perspective, the link between economic crisis and political violence[11][12] and the Great Depression and the German Interwar Economy.[13] Voth has also written about time use in industrializing societies.[14][1][15][16]

Distinctions and honors

[edit]

Voth has won several prizes. In addition to two prizes for best dissertation and election to the Econometric Society in 2022, he won a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship, the Larry Neal Prize for best paper in Explorations in Economic History in 2010-11 (with Mauricio Drelichman), the Albert Hirschman Award for best writing in global political economy, and the Montias Prize for best paper in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2020-21 (with Jacopo Ponticelli). His research has attracted external funding of more than €4.3 million, including a European Research Council Advanced Grant. He has delivered the Tawney Memorial Lecture at the EHS, Cambridge, April 2011, the Sir John Hicks Lecture in Oxford, 2016, and the NFR Crafts Lecture in Warwick (2021), as well as keynotes at numerous conferences and workshops.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Jan de Vries (26 May 2008). The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-1-139-47308-8.
  2. ^ Time to give the Black Death plague its due - Winnipeg Free Press
  3. ^ "Home". www.ubscenter.uzh.ch (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  4. ^ "People".
  5. ^ "Current Fellows". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  6. ^ " Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'". Der Spiegel, August 31, 2011. Interview by Alexander Jung and Gerhard Spörl
  7. ^ A shackled revolution? The Bubble Act and financial regulation in eighteenth-century England : Review of Keynesian Economics
  8. ^ "The threat of war can bring much-needed investment". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  9. ^ Voth, Hans-Joachim (2022-06-30). "New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II". Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  10. ^ "Throughout history, pandemics have had profound economic effects". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  11. ^ "Unrest in peace". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  12. ^ Jung, Alexander (August 31, 2011). "Interview With Historian Hans-Joachim Voth: 'The Euro Can't Survive in Its Current Form'". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  13. ^ Steinhoff, Anthony J., Review of Dwyer, Philip G., ed., Modern Prussian History, 1830-1947, H-German, H-Review, retrieved 2024-07-10
  14. ^ "Nice Work if you can get out". Economist. April 22, 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  15. ^ Vanessa Ogle (12 October 2015). The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950. Harvard University Press. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-0-674-73702-0.
  16. ^ Craig Muldrew (3 February 2011). Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550–1780. Cambridge University Press. pp. 291–. ISBN 978-1-139-49512-7.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hans-Joachim_Voth&oldid=1233659722"