David Saul Landes (April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was a professor ofeconomics and ofhistory atHarvard University.^[1] He is the author ofBankers and Pashas,Revolution in Time,The Unbound Prometheus,The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, andDynasties.^[2] Such works have received both praise for detailed retelling of economic history, as well as scorn on charges ofEurocentrism, a charge he openly embraced, arguing that an explanation for an economic miracle that happened originally only inEurope must of necessity be a Eurocentric analysis.

Landes earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1953, after aB.A. fromCity College of New York in 1942.^[3] While he waited his call-up to serve in World War II, Landes studiedcryptanalysis. He was assigned to the Signal Corps, where he worked on deciphering Japanese coded messages.^[4]

HistorianNiall Ferguson called him one of his "most revered mentors".^[5]

Landes was a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[6] the United StatesNational Academy of Sciences,^[7] and theAmerican Philosophical Society.^[8]

His sonRichard Landes is a historian and author.^[9]

• Landes, David S. (2007).Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: Viking.ISBN 978-0-670-03338-6.
• Landes, David S. (1998).The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W.W. Norton.ISBN 0-393-04017-8.
• Landes, David S. (1983).Revolution in Time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.ISBN 0-674-00282-2.
• Landes, David. S. (1969).The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge, New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.ISBN 0-521-09418-6.
• Landes, David S.,Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt (1958)[1]

• Environmental determinism

• Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa(ASMEA)
• Landes, David S. (2006)."Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?".Journal of Economic Perspectives.20 (2):3–22.doi:10.1257/jep.20.2.3.

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