Peter A. HallFBA is a Canadian political scientist and comparative political economist. He is the Krupp Foundation Professor of European studies at Harvard University. Hall is best known for his work on comparative capitalism,historical institutionalism,and the political economy of advanced democracies,including his co-edited volume Varieties of Capitalism (2001),which has been widely cited across the social sciences.
Hall earned his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Toronto. He completed an M.Phil. in politics at Balliol College,Oxford,followed by an A.M. and Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University,where he received his doctorate in 1982.[1]
Academic career
Hall has spent the majority of his academic career at Harvard University. He was appointed Professor of Government in 1989[2] and served as the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1999 to 2001.[3] In 2001,he was named the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies.[4]
His co-edited book Varieties of Capitalism:The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001),written with David Soskice,introduced a framework distinguishing between liberal and coordinated market economies and has become a foundational text in political economy and economic sociology.[12] His earlier book The Political Power of Economic Ideas (1989) examined the diffusion of Keynesianism across advanced democracies and contributed to scholarship on ideas and policy change.[13]
Public Policy-Making in Spain. New York:M. E. Sharpe,1990. Edited with Víctor Pérez-Díaz. (Special issue of the International Journal of Political Economy,Vol. 20,No. 3.)
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