Noah Sutter – Economic Historian
Quantitative Economic History with Big Data
I am a quantitative economic historian at the London School of Economics interested in questions of elite change and elite persistence. I work with big self-collected datasets.
I am fascinated by the long nineteenth century and the transitions it has brought onto the world.
I am currently a PhD student in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My supervisors are Neil Cummins and Mohamed Saleh.
Research
Explore my research projects and papers.
Surnames and Distinction (Job Market Paper)
Job Market Paper
Illegal Book Trade and the Market for Ideas in Eighteenth Century France
With Julius Koschnick
Work in Progress
Explore my ongoing works in progress.
The New Regime of the Family
The Colonial Origins of Regional Development in Europe
With Andrés Irarrázaval
Elite Persistence in Historical Perspective
”il n’y a plus de noblesse aujourd’hui, il n’y a plus qu’une aristocratie.”
Honoré de Balzac, H. (1947). Comédie Humaine: Le cabinet des antiques, p. 459
Recent Conferences
We might have met at a recent conference. In the past months I have attended the following workshops and conferences.
ASREC Europe – Venice
Session on “The Republic of Letters: Print, Networks and the Diffusion of Ideas”
“The Dynamics of Inequality: Long-Term Perspectives” – Florence
IT19 Winter School – Canazei
Blog – Notes from the Ungleichzeitigkeit
In this blog I publish more general musings about economic history that are not based on empirical research but inspired by my reading, research, teaching, and my colleagues. I try to write about what inspires my research – what Marx has called the bourgeois revolution, what Palmer has called the Democratic Revolution, what Polanyi called Great Transformation, what Koselleck – namesake for this blog – saw as the beginning of the permanent crisis of world history.
Explore my most recent blog posts.
Thoughts on Guido Alfani’s idea on Aristocratization
The Origins of Rational Economic Behaviour
Nous n’avons jamais été modernes – What were modernization theories right about?
Get in Touch!
Email me using N.W.Sutter[at]lse.ac.uk or using the following form:
