David S. Landes

About the author

David Saul Landes was a professor of economics and history at Harvard University. He authored Bankers and Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties. His works received praise for detailed economic history but criticism for Eurocentrism, a charge he openly embraced, arguing that explaining Europe's original economic miracle necessarily required a Eurocentric analysis.