Emma Rothschild | |
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Born | Emma Georgina Rothschild 16 May 1948 London, England |
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Occupation(s) | Economist and economic historian |
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Parent | Victor Rothschild |
Relatives | Rothschild family Rothschild banking family of England |
Emma Georgina Rothschild CMG (born 16 May 1948) is an English economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University. She is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. She formerly served as board member of United Nations Foundation and as a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. [1]
She is a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a trustee of the Rothschild Archive, [2] the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.
Rothschild was born in London, England, the daughter of Victor Rothschild (1910–1990) and his second wife, Teresa Georgina Rothschild (née Mayor; 1915–1996). On her father's side, she descends from the Rothschild family. Her maternal grandfather, Robert John Grote Mayor, was the brother of English novelist F. M. Mayor and a great-nephew of philosopher and clergyman John Grote. Her maternal grandmother, Katherine Beatrice Meinertzhagen, was the sister of soldier Richard Meinertzhagen and the niece of author Beatrice Webb. [3] She is the sister of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild and the half-sister of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. At the age of 15, she became the youngest woman ever admitted to Somerville College, Oxford, from which she graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1967. She was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[ citation needed ]
She was an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She then was a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and continues to be an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the Cambridge History faculty. [4]
She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. [5] She is a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [6]
She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. [7]
In 1991, Rothschild married the Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Some of her publications are:
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