Biography

He is Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University, and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
He specializes in Economic History and the economics of technological change and population.
He is Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Institutions, Organizations, and Growth program of the “Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2015, he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Economic History.
He is a member of the” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the British Academy, and the Cliometric Society.
His books have won numerous important awards, including the Joseph Schumpeter Memorial Prize, the Ranki Prize for the best book in European Economic History, the Donald Price of the” American Political Science Association, and the Allan Sharlin Award from the Social Science History Association.
Among his publications: The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the “Knowledge Economy, il Mulino (2004); A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the” Modern Economy, il Mulino (2018).