Emma Rothschild

Emma Georgina Rothschild-Sen (born May 16, 1948 in London , England ) is a British economic historian. She has been Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University since 2008 and was previously Professor at the University of Cambridge and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris .

Life

She is the daughter of Victor Rothschild from the Rothschild banking dynasty. In 1967 she graduated from Somerville College , Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics . In 1968 she studied economics as a Kennedy Scholar at MIT . In 1970 she received a Master of Arts . She has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2003 .

Rothschild has been married to the economist and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen since 1991 .

Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age . Random House, New York 1973.
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2001.
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011.

^ Admin: Professor Emma Rothschild - Faculty of History. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (English).
^ Emma Rothschild: Center for History and Economics. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
↑ Member History: Emma Rothschild. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 23, 2018 (with biographical notes).
↑ - The Washington Post. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Rothschild, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rothschild-Sen, Emma Georgina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	London , England