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Carl Wennerlind
Assistant Professor of History

Office: 403 Lehman Hall

Phone: 212-854-2055

Email:cwennerl@barnard.edu

 

 

Course Offerings:
Commercial Practices, Commercial Imaginations, Europe: 1300-1750
Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Formation of Atlantic Capitalism: 1600-1800
Filthy Lucre: A History of Money
Capitalism and Enlightenment
A Revolution in Culture – FYS .
Introduction to European History: Renaissance to the French Revolution

Research Interests:
17th and 18th century European intellectual history and political economy.
History, politics, and culture of money and credit.

Publications: 
Edited Book:
Essays on David Hume's Political Economy. Edited by Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas (London: Routledge). 2006.

Refereed Articles:
“David Hume’s Monetary Theory Revisited: Was He Really a Quantity Theorist and an Inflationist?” Journal of Political Economy. February 2005. Vol. 113. No. 1:  223-37.

“The Death Penalty as Monetary Policy: The Practice and Punishment of Monetary Crime, 1690-1830.” History of Political Economy. March 2004. Vol. 36. No. 1: 129-59.

Credit-Money as the Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Coinage Problem in Seventeenth-Century England.” History of Political Economy. 2003. Supplement to Vol. 35: 235-62.

“David Hume’s Political Philosophy: A Theory of Commercial Modernization.” Hume Studies. November 2002. Vol. 28. No. 2: 247-70.

“The Labor Theory of Value and the Strategic Role of Alienation.” Capital and Class. Summer 2002. No. 77: 1-21.

“Money Talks, but What is it Saying? The Semiotics of Money and Social Control.” Journal of Economic Issues. September. 2001. Vol. 35. No. 3: 557-74.

“The Link between David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and his Fiduciary Theory of Money.” History of Political Economy. March 2001. Vol. 33. No. 1: 139-60.

"The Humean Paternity to Adam Smith's Theory of Money." History of Economic Ideas. Spring 2000. Vol. 8. No. 1: 77-97.

Articles in Books:
"David Hume as a Political Economist" in The History of Scottish Economic Thought (London: Routledge Press).  Edited by A. Dow and S. Dow.  2006.

“Artificial Virtue and Oil of Commerce: A Synthetic view of Hume’s Idea of Money” in Essays on David Hume’s Political Economy (London: Routledge Press). Edited by C. Wennerlind and M. Schabas. 2006.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1999
B.A.  University of South Florida 1993

 




Barnard College o Columbia University o 2004