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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

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)
  • Case

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.)
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

and a fast-growing market. There was a growing need to incorporate local relevance into global products and to respond to local competitors. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Charlotte Robertson and Robert Fredona
This case uses the history of Venice—from the driving of the first pylons in the lagoon to the abdication of the city’s last doge, across the ages of Marco Polo and Vivaldi—to explore the invention and global diffusion of capitalism, as well as the cyclical rise and... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; History; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Italy
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Reinert, Sophus A., Charlotte Robertson, and Robert Fredona. "Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe

By: Sophus A. Reinert
As the itinerant wizard (technically one of the Maiar, if not the Istari) Gandalf wrote to the then domestically-inclined hobbit Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “Not all those who wander are lost.” Indeed, as the recent brouhaha over the... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Globalization
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Reinert, Sophus A. "Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-005, July 2016.
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Rosario Patalano and Sophus A. Reinert (Palgrave Macmillan) The contributors to this book explore the life and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

strategy," and he describes how companies such as Yelp and Zynga have done it. The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World edited by View Details
  • 2018
  • Book

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.
  • January 2022
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Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-033, January 2022.
  • December 2017 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (A)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli
On the evening of 3 August 1914, British Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Grey contemplated whether to advise King and Parliament to declare war on Germany in the wake of the country’s invasion of Belgium or to stay out of what quickly was becoming a world war triggered... View Details
Keywords: The World; The Rise And Fall Of Globalization; World War; Globalization; War; Economics; Trade; Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Society; History; Values and Beliefs; Macroeconomics
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Federica Gabrieli. "Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-023, December 2017. (Revised January 2024.)
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Society in Enlightenment Italy by Sophus A. Reinert Harvard University Press The terms “capitalism” and... View Details
  • Web

IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation Course Number 6052 Professor Sophus A. Reinert Professor of Management Practice Dante... View Details
  • January 2022 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (A)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-032, January 2022. (Revised August 2024.)
  • Summer 2019
  • Article

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.
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei Pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jani Marjanen
This essay focuses on the Accademia dei Pugni, or The Academy of Punches, a celebrated institution which flourished for a few years in 1760s Austrian Milan, and its journal Il Caffè (1764–1766). It does so to revisit one of the cardinal questions... View Details
Keywords: History; Culture; Economic Systems
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Jani Marjanen. "Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei Pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780." Chap. 6 in The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century: Patriotic Refom in Europe and North America, edited by Koen Stapelbroek and Jani Marjanen, 130–156. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Web

Business Economics - Doctoral

C. Weinzierl Market design Alex Chan Political economy David A. Moss Sophus A. Reinert Market design Alex Chan Networks Shane M. Greenstein Ebehi... View Details
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Strategy - Doctoral

Michael Lingzhi Li Deepak Malhotra Edward McFowland III Cynthia A. Montgomery John C. Mulliken Kyle R. Myers Frank Nagle Seth Neel Felix Oberholzer-Gee Joseph Pacelli Lynn S. Paine Elisabeth C. Paulson View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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