Sophus A. Reinert
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Sophus Reinert is an assistant professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, where he teaches the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum. Before joining HBS, he was a research fellow and an affiliated lecturer in history at Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge (UK).
Professor Reinert studies the history of capitalism and political economy since the Renaissance, focusing particularly on the historical role played by governments in both economic development and decline. He is the author of Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, published by Harvard University Press in 2011 and winner of the 2012 Spengler Prize, the 2012 EAEPE-Myrdal Prize, as well as the 2012 George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. He edited and wrote the introduction to A “Short Treatise” on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1613), by Antonio Serra (London and New Delhi: Anthem); and he is the series editor of Economic Ideas that Built Europe, also with Anthem.
Professor Reinert earned his Ph.D. in history at the University for Cambridge, together with an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history. As an undergraduate, he studied history at Cornell University. He has been a Carl Schurz Fellow at the Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at the University of Erfurt, Germany, and a fellow of the Einaudi Foundation in Turin, Italy.
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Article
| American Historical Review
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Lessons on the Rise and Fall of Great Powers: Conquest, Commerce, and Decline in Enlightenment Italy
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Learning;
Society;
Italy;
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Article
| On Track
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International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Trade;
National Security;
Perspective;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "International Trade and National Security in Historical Perspective." On Track 15, no. 2 (2010): 12–15.
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Article
| History of Political Economy
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'One will make of Political Economy...what the Scholastics did with Philosophy': Henry Lloyd and the Mathematization of Economics
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Government and Politics;
Economy;
Economics;
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Article
| History of European Ideas
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Blaming the Medici: Footnotes, Falsification, and the Fate of the English Model in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Government and Politics;
History;
Italy;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "Blaming the Medici: Footnotes, Falsification, and the Fate of the English Model in Eighteenth-Century Italy." History of European Ideas 32, no. 4 (2006): 430–455.
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Book Review
| Rivista storica italiana
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In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 by John Robertson
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Society;
Information;
History;
Scotland;
Italy;
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Article
| European Journal of Law and Economics
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Cameralism and Commercial Rivalry: Nationbuilding through Economic Autarky in Seckendorff's 1665 Additiones
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Economics;
History;
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Article
| International Review of Sociology
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Iconoclastic Eugenics: Thorstein Veblen on Racial Diversity and Cultural Nomadism
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Genetics;
Diversity Characteristics;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "Iconoclastic Eugenics: Thorstein Veblen on Racial Diversity and Cultural Nomadism." International Review of Sociology 14, no. 3 (2004): 513–534.
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Article
| Istituzioni e sviluppo economico
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An Early National Innovation System: the Case of Anonio Serra's 1613 Breve Trattato
Sophus A. Reinert and Erik S. Reinert
Keywords: Innovation and Invention;
History;
System;
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Chapter
| Physiocrats, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer
| 2011
Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: History;
Economic Systems;
Italy;
Germany;
Norway;
Denmark;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Tuscany, Baden, and Denmark-Norway." In Physiocrats, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer, edited by Jurgen Backhaus, 39–69. Springer, 2011.
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Chapter
| Albert Schaffle (1821-1903):The Legacy of an Underestimated Economist
| 2010
Darwin and the Body Politic: A Note on Schaffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: History;
Economics;
Society;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "Darwin and the Body Politic: A Note on Schaffle, Veblen, and the Shift of Biological Metaphor in Economics." In Albert Schaffle (1821-1903):The Legacy of an Underestimated Economist, edited by Jurgen Backhaus, 129–152. Haag + Herchen, 2010.
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Chapter
| Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies
| 2009
The Sultan's Republic: Jealousy of Trade and Oriental Despotism in Paolo Mattia Doria
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: History;
Trade;
Government and Politics;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "The Sultan's Republic: Jealousy of Trade and Oriental Despotism in Paolo Mattia Doria." In Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, edited by Gabriel Paquette, 253–269. Ashgate Publishing, 2009.
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Chapter
| Genovesi Economista
| 2007
Traduzione edemulazione: La genealogia occulta della Storia del Commercio
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: Business History;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "Traduzione edemulazione: La genealogia occulta della Storia del Commercio." In Genovesi Economista, edited by Bruno Jossa, Rosario Patalano, and Eugenio Zagari, 155–192. Naples: Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici, 2007.
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Chapter
| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Economy and Society
| 2006
An 'All too Human' Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Frage, and the German Historical School of Economics
Sophus A. Reinert and Erik S. Reinert
Keywords: History;
Economics;
Social Issues;
Germany;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A., and Erik S. Reinert. "An 'All too Human' Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Frage, and the German Historical School of Economics." In Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Economy and Society, edited by Jurgen Backhaus, and Wolfgang Drechsler, 111–135. Springer, 2006.
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Chapter
| The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Development
| 2005
The Italian Tradition of Political Economy: Theories and Policies of Development in the Semi-Periphery of the Enlightenment
Sophus A. Reinert
Keywords: History;
Development Economics;
Italy;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A. "The Italian Tradition of Political Economy: Theories and Policies of Development in the Semi-Periphery of the Enlightenment." In The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Development, edited by Jomo K. Sundaram, and Erik S. Reinert, 24–47. Zed Books, 2005.
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Chapter
| The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Development
| 2005
Mercantilism and Economic Development: Schumpeterian Dynamics, Institution Building and International Benchmarking
Sophus A. Reinert and Erik S. Reinert
Keywords: Development Economics;
Economic Systems;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Measurement and Metrics;
Globalization;
Citation: Reinert, Sophus A., and Erik S. Reinert. "Mercantilism and Economic Development: Schumpeterian Dynamics, Institution Building and International Benchmarking." In The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought Have Addressed Development, edited by Jomo K. Sundaram, and Erik S. Reinert, 1–23. Zed Books, 2005.
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