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    Sophus A. Reinert

    Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

    Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine
    • 26 Sep 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

    Keywords: by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
    • 29 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

    issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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    (CATS) Business, Government & the International Economy, General Management Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Business, Government & the International Economy Sophus A.... View Details
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    State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern... View Details
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    Jeffrey Rayport Scaling Technology Ventures Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Sophus A. Reinert Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Business, Government & the... View Details
    • 07 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

    book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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    State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern... View Details
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    The Origins, Current State, and Future of Capitalism

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    Starting with the dawn of market capitalism in Renaissance Italy, Professor Reinert works at the intersection of economic ideas, policies, and practices in history, particularly as seen through the lens of national strategies in international competition. He seeks to... View Details
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    In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760, by John Robertson

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    Keywords: Society; Information; History; Scotland; Italy
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    Reinert, Sophus A. In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760, by John Robertson." Rivista storica italiana 118 (2006): 975–986.
    • 2018
    • Introduction

    Introduction: History and Political Economy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
    This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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    Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Introduction: History and Political Economy." Introduction to New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 11–32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    • 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.
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    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." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-021, September 2017. (Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, Heidi Tworek (2018).)
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2022
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    Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300-1600

    By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
    This essay uses the concept of 'copynorms', social norms about copying expressive works that can be distinct from legal norms about the same, in order to understand the meaning of intellectual property among Roman law and canon law jurists from the fourteenth through... View Details
    Keywords: Copyright; History; Europe
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    Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Before Plagiarism: Lawyers and Copynorms in Europe, 1300–1600." Rivista storica italiana 134, no. 3 (2022): 714–765.
    • 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.
    • Spring 2020
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    Italy and the Origins of Capitalism

    By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
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    Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Italy and the Origins of Capitalism." Business History Review 94 (Spring 2020): 5–38.
    • 13 Feb 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2018
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    March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

    embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, this book encourages all to rebel against what’s comfortable so we can thrive. New Perspectives on the History of Political... View Details
    • April 2015 (Revised October 2019)
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    The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    The continent of Europe seemed in the spring of 2015 to be in a weaker position relative to other world regions than it had in centuries. Though comparatively small, it had long played a disproportionate role in world history, to the extent that the modern world system... View Details
    Keywords: The Great Divergence; Modern Economic Growth; Empire; Disruption; Economic Growth; Values and Beliefs; History; Globalization; Europe
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    Reinert, Sophus A. "The Great Divergence: Europe and Modern Economic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 715-039, April 2015. (Revised October 2019.)
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