David Landes

David S. Landes ( born April 29, 1924 in New York as David Saul country; † August 17, 2013 in Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an American economic historian.

Life

David S. Landes, born in 1924 in New York City, was professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University and retired professor of history at George Washington University. In 1953 he received his doctorate at Harvard University for Ph. D..

In 2004 he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal.

He died on August 17, 2013 at the age of 89 years.

Writings

• Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt. Heinemann, London 1958
• The Bank Bleichröder. An interim report, in Robert Weltsch Ed.: German Jewry, Rise and Crisis. Forms, ideas, works. Fourteen monographs. Publication of the Leo Baeck Institute. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1963 p 187-215
• The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969 The Unbound Prometheus. Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-462-00921-4; dtv, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-423-04418-7 Rise of the citizens. Review by Robert S. Williger, Time, January 25, 1974

• Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Why one rich and the other is poor. Siedler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88680-525-5; Berliner Taschenbuch -Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-442-76126-3 The American David S. Landes explains why Europe in economic development was ahead. Review of Dietrich Creutzburg, Der Tagesspiegel, October 10, 1999
• The ineradicable inequality. Review by Herfried Münkler, Die Zeit, No. 42/1999

• The power of the family. Economic dynasties in world history. Siedler, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88680-676-6; Pantheon, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-570-55053-2 Review by Ute Frevert, Die Zeit, November 9, 2006
• Review by Daniel Jütte, Neue Zürcher Zeitung November 29, 2006
• Review by Hans Lang nickel, socialnet 27 May, 2008