Biography 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 recently published Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution,
1620-1720 (Harvard University Press, 2011) and is currently at work on a
monograph exploring the changing conceptual nature
of scarcity from early modern Aristotelian-influenced thinking to modern
neo-classical economics. In addition to his co-edited volume David Hume’s Political Economy (with
Margaret Schabas), Wennerlind’s work on Hume’s economic thought has appeared in
various journals, including the Journal
of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political
Economy, and Hume Studies.
