More news from the intersection of legal history and economic history:
Jonathan Levy, author of the
prize-winning book
Freaks of Fortune (2012), has left Princeton University for the University of Chicago. From the
Chronicle of Higher Ed:
It wasn’t an easy decision for Jonathan I. Levy to leave the history department at Princeton University, where he earned tenure last year. This fall, however, the acclaimed young scholar will return to the institution that guided him toward his academic career: the University of Chicago. . . . .
Chicago’s appeal, Mr. Levy says, stems in part from its attractive
opportunities for research and collaboration between departments, which
he considers essential for his area of expertise, economic history. The
field is "at a really important moment" stemming from the 2008 financial
crisis, he says; the disciplines had largely split apart, but since
then, historians’ interest in economics has been renewed.
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