Philip T. Hoffman

Awards and honors

1984 – John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association, for Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500–1789 1992 – Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, for the same article 1997 – Allan Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association, for Growth in a Traditional Society 2001 – Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association, for Priceless Markets 2001 – Guggenheim Fellowship, in economic history 2013 – Cliometric Society Fellow 2019 – Fellow, Economic History Association 2021 – Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association, for Dark Matter Credit

Selected works Books Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500–1789. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450–1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660–1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Why Did Europe Conquer the World? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. ed., with Kathryn Norberg. Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, 1450–1789. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. ed., with Stanley Engerman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth Sokoloff. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Articles Hoffman, Philip T. "The economic theory of sharecropping in early modern France." The Journal of Economic History 44, no. 2 (1984): 309-319. Hoffman, Philip T. "Taxes and agrarian life in early modern France: land sales, 1550–1730." The Journal of Economic History 46, no. 1 (1986): 37-55. Hoffman, Philip T. "Institutions and agriculture in old regime France." Politics & Society 16, no. 2-3 (1988): 241-264. Hoffman, Philip T. "Land rents and agricultural productivity: the Paris basin, 1450–1789." The Journal of Economic History 51, no. 4 (1991): 771-805. Hoffman, P.T., Postel-Vinay, G. and Rosenthal, J.L., 1992. Private credit markets in Paris, 1690–1840. The journal of economic history, 52(2), pp.293-306. Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. "Redistribution and long-term private debt in Paris, 1660–1726." The Journal of Economic History 55, no. 2 (1995): 256-284. Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. "What do notaries do? Overcoming asymmetric information in financial markets: The case of Paris, 1751." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft (1998): 499-530. Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. "Information and economic history: How the credit market in old regime Paris forces us to rethink the transition to capitalism." The American Historical Review 104, no. 1 (1999): 69-94. Hoffman, Philip T., David S. Jacks, Patricia A. Levin, and Peter H. Lindert. "Real inequality in Europe since 1500." The Journal of Economic History 62, no. 2 (2002): 322-355. Hoffman, P.T., 2011. Prices, the military revolution, and Western Europe's comparative advantage in violence. The Economic History Review, 64, pp.39-59. Hoffman, Philip T. "Why was it Europeans who conquered the world?." The Journal of Economic History 72, no. 3 (2012): 601-633. Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. "Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries." Explorations in Economic History 55 (2015): 39-57. Hoffman, Philip T. "What do states do? Politics and economic history." The Journal of Economic History 75, no. 2 (2015): 303-332.

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