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The Centre for History and Economics was established at King's College, University of Cambridge in 1991 with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, whether through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic and social thought, or through economic history. The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in each of the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of economists and historians in addressing issues of public importance. These include economic security, globalization in historical perspective, poverty and inequality, and the relationship between politics and religion. In July 2007, King's College, Cambridge and the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences established a Joint Centre for History and Economics. Luca Einaudi is visiting the Centre and the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finances (CERF) in 2010, while on leave from his post as senior economist in the Prime Minister's Office, Rome, Italy. He was a Prize Research Student at the Centre in 1994/1995, and is the author of Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)(Oxford, 2001). While at the Centre, he will be working on the 2007-2009 financial crisis in historical perspective. Barbara Ravelhofer is visiting the Centre in January-March 2010. She is Reader in English Literature at Durham University and a research associate of the Centre. She is the author of The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music (Oxford, 2006). Her current research is on European Frontiers in Literary Perspective. |
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