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Hans-Joachim Voth

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Born in Lübeck, Germany in 1968, Hans-Joachim Voth studied economics and history in Germany, Italy and the UK. He is an economic historian with interests in long-run growth and the history of financial markets. Hans-Joachim Voth holds a doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford. He has worked for McKinsey & Co., Inc. and has held visiting appointments at MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and NYU. After 15 years at UPF, Barcelona, he is currently Chair of Development Economics and Emerging Markets, University of Zurich. Hans-Joachim Voth's dissertation (published as "Time and Work in England", OUP 2001) won the EHA Gerschenkron Prize for best dissertation in international economic history and the EHES Luzzatto Prize for best thesis. His latest book (with Peter Temin, published by OUP in 2013) is "Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700". In 2014, Princeton University Press published "Lending to the Borrower from Hell" (with Mauricio Drelichman).
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