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      • Spring 2020
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      Political Economy and the Medici

      By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
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      Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Political Economy and the Medici." Business History Review 94 (Spring 2020): 125–177.
      • March 2020 (Revised March 2024)
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      Kenya and the Silicon Savannah

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Katharine Bodnar and Leah Kaplow
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Katharine Bodnar, and Leah Kaplow. "Kenya and the Silicon Savannah." Harvard Business School Case 720-032, March 2020. (Revised March 2024.)
      • March 2020
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      Brazil: Contesting the Rules of Government

      By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer
      Brazilian factions so fiercely opposed one another that for a century and a half they had contested not just state policies but the rules and structure of the state itself. Was this politics, so unlike the Western political ideal, sign of an immature or failing... View Details
      Keywords: Governance; Policy; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Brazil
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      Reinert, Sophus A., and Jonathan Schlefer. "Brazil: Contesting the Rules of Government." Harvard Business School Case 720-026, March 2020.
      • March–April 2020
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      Case Study: Pursue Your Dream or Move On?

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "Case Study: Pursue Your Dream or Move On?" Harvard Business Review 98, no. 2 (March–April 2020).
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      Northern Lights: Political Economy and the Terroir of the Norwegian Enlightenment

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "Northern Lights: Political Economy and the Terroir of the Norwegian Enlightenment." Journal of Modern History 92, no. 1 (March 2020): 76–115.
      • January 2020
      • Background Note

      Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business

      By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
      This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; National Security; Government Legislation; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Science-Based Business; Weather; Society; Technology
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      Henderson, Rebecca M., Sophus A. Reinert, and Mariana Oseguera. "Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 320-087, January 2020. (Click here for a complimentary copy on the Business & Environment Initiative’s site.)
      • October 2019 (Revised July 2020)
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      Serbia at a Crossroads

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Federica Gabrieli and Jyotika Banga
      In the fall of 2018, Serbia found itself at a crossroads yet again. Following the Balkan Wars of the 1990s and the collapse of Yugoslavia, the country had embarked on a slow and arduous process of accession to the European Union (EU). This had been further hampered by... View Details
      Keywords: Geopolitics; EU Accession; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; War; Social Issues; Serbia
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Federica Gabrieli, and Jyotika Banga. "Serbia at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 720-004, October 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
      • Summer 2019
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      Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803

      By: Rolv Petter Amdam, Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
      Using internal debates and surviving account books, this article traces the 18th-century history of the Norwegian glass industry, created to exploit Norway's immense natural resource wealth, and of the chartered company that would later become Norway's iconic... View Details
      Keywords: Glass Industry; Natural Resources; Profitability; Political Economy; Cameralism; Liberalization; Patriotism; Profit; Natural Environment; Business History; Norway
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      Amdam, Rolv Petter, Robert Fredona, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Breaking Even: Political Economy and Private Enterprise in the Norwegian Glass Industry, 1739-1803." Business History Review 93, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 275–317.
      • 2019
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      The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe

      By: Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert
      The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an “economic turn” that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; France; Europe
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      Kaplan, Steven L., and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
      • 2019
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      Poor Mao's Almanack? Empire, Political Economy, and the Transformation of Social Science

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "Poor Mao's Almanack? Empire, Political Economy, and the Transformation of Social Science." Chap. 2 in Empire and the Social Sciences: Global Histories of Knowledge, edited by Jeremy Adelman. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

      By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
      N.S.B. Gras, the father of business history in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Business History
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      Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Chap. 11 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek. New York: Routledge, 2019.
      • 2019
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      'A Sublimely Stupid Idea': Physiocracy in Italy from the Enlightenment to Fascism

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "'A Sublimely Stupid Idea': Physiocracy in Italy from the Enlightenment to Fascism." In The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert, 699–734. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
      • 2019
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      Epilogue: Political Economy and the Social

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
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      Reinert, Sophus A. "Epilogue: Political Economy and the Social." In The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert, 735–748. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
      • February 2019
      • Teaching Note

      Angola Starts Now

      By: Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 719-007. View Details
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      Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 719-058, February 2019.
      • January 2019 (Revised December 2020)
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      Angola Starts Now

      By: Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert
      After five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potential. A country... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Issues; Angola
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      Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Case 719-007, January 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
      • 2019
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      The Economic Turn in Enlightenment Europe

      By: Sophus A. Reinert and Steven L. Kaplan
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      Reinert, Sophus A., and Steven L. Kaplan. "The Economic Turn in Enlightenment Europe." In The Economic Turn: Recasting Political Economy in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Steven L. Kaplan and Sophus A. Reinert, 1–34. London: Anthem Press, 2019.
      • December 11, 2018
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      Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

      By: Sophus A. Reinert and Dante Roscini
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      Reinert, Sophus A., and Dante Roscini. "Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (December 11, 2018).
      • 2018
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      The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

      By: Sophus A. Reinert
      The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
      Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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      Reinert, Sophus A. The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
      • November 2018 (Revised February 2023)
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      Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Namrata Arora
      In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. The country, once unceremoniously dubbed a “basket case”... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Adaptation; Environmental Management; Problems and Challenges; Immigration; Bangladesh
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Sophus A. Reinert, and Namrata Arora. "Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom." Harvard Business School Case 719-008, November 2018. (Revised February 2023.)
      • October 2018 (Revised April 2022)
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      Nauru: Paradise Lost

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Dawn H. Lau, Courtney Basanovic and Julie Kheyfets
      Keywords: Marcus Stephen; Nauru
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Dawn H. Lau, Courtney Basanovic, and Julie Kheyfets. "Nauru: Paradise Lost." Harvard Business School Case 719-009, October 2018. (Revised April 2022.)
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