Ian Kumekawa
Ian Kumekawa is a historian at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University. He is the author of The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics (2017), which was the co-winner of the Joseph J. Spengler Prize. He has taught at Harvard and MIT. He lives in Boston.
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Empty Vessel
A fascinating history of the world economy over the last fifty years told through the life of a single ship, from a brilliant young historian.…