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Carl Wennerlind
Assistant Professor of History
Carl Wennerlind, assistant professor of history, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2001.
Professor Wennerlind specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, with a focus on intellectual history and political economy. He is particularly interested in the historical development of money and credit, as well as attempts to theorize these phenomena. He is currently researching the intellectual history of the English financial revolution.
He has taught such courses as "Introduction to European History: Renaissance to the French Revolution"; "Filthy Lucre: A History of Money"; "Capitalism and the Enlightenment"; "Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Formation of Atlantic Capitalism: 1600-1800"; and "Commercial Practices, Commercial Imaginations in Europe, 1300-1750" (graduate seminar).
Selected Publications
The Idea of Credit: An Intellectual History of the British Financial Revolution, 1620-1710 (Under contract with Harvard University Press)
David Hume's Political Economy, ed. with M. Schabas (London: Routledge, 2008)
"An Artificial Virtue and the Oil of Commerce: A Synthetic view of Hume's Idea of Money," in David Hume's Political Economy, ed. C. Wennerlind and M. Schabas (London: Routledge Press, 2008)
"David Hume as a Political Economist," in The History of Scottish Economic Thought, ed. A. Dow and S. Dow (London: Routledge Press, 2006)
"David Hume's Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?" Journal of Political Economy 113 (February 2005)
"The Death Penalty as Monetary Policy: The Practice and Punishment of Monetary Crime, 1690-1830," History of Political Economy 36 (March 2004)
"Credit-Money as the Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Coinage Problem in Seventeenth-Century England," History of Political Economy, Supplement to Vol. 35 (2003)
"David Hume's Political Philosophy: A Theory of Commercial Modernization," Hume Studies 28 (November 2002)
"Money Talks, but What Is It Saying? The Semiotics of Money and Social Control," Journal of Economic Issues 35 (September 2001)
"The Link Between David Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature' and His Fiduciary Theory of Money," History of Political Economy 33 (March 2001)
"The Humean Paternity to Adam Smith's Theory of Money," History of Economic Ideas 8 (Spring 2000)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., University of South Florida
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
European history
Economic history
History of political economy