Philip T. Hoffman

Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science

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• Office Address:
  Division of the Humanities
  and Social Sciences
  Mail Code: 228-77
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, California 91125
• Phone: + (626) 395-4085
• Fax : + (626) 405-9841
• E-mail: pth@hss.caltech.edu

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• Research
• Vita
• Papers
• The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Europe, China, and the early United States
• Agriculture: Property Rights and Tenure Systems
• Prices and Real Inequality in Europe Since 1500
• Why did Europeans Conquer the World is available at
• http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/files/Hoffman.pdf
• Watson lecture on why Europeans conquered the world, see
• http://today.caltech.edu/theater/results.tcl?query_string=Hoffman
• Recent Books
• For my 2007 book on financial crises, Surviving Large Losses, see:
• http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HOFSUR.html
• For Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development, see:
• http://books.cambridge.org/0521820545.htm
• For the new paperback edition of Growth in a Traditional Society, see:
• Growth in a Traditional Society
• For the English edition of Priceless Markets, see:
• Priceless Markets
• For the French edition of Priceless Markets, see:
• Des Marchés sans Prix
• For Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government, see:
• Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government
• Recent Articles
• Real Inequality in Europe Since 1500