Emma Rothschild

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Emma Georgina Rothschild CMG (born May 16, 1948) is a British economic historian and professor at Harvard and Cambridge universities who is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. This family has lost most of its wealth in the 20th century. However there are many false claims, that this family is involved in many conspiracys.

Born in London, England, she is the daughter of Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990) and Teresa Georgina Mayor (1915-1996) . At age 15, she became the youngest woman ever admitted to Oxford University from which she graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1967 then received her MA degree in 1970. She was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

From 1978 to 1988, she was an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Humanities and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society and also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

In 1991, Emma Rothschild married economist and Nobel laureate, Amartya Kumar Sen.

Ms Rothschild is chair of both the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and of the United Nations Foundation Board Executive Committee.

In recognition of her services to Britain's international cultural and academic relations, the New Year Honours 2000 made Emma Rothschild a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

The director of the Centre for History and Economics and a fellow at King's College, Cambridge, currently Ms Rothschild is a Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University where she is involved with the Harvard and University of Cambridge research project “Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760.”

Emma Rothschild also serves as Chair of The Rothschild Archive [2], the international centre in London for research into the history of the Rothschild family.

She has written extensively on economic history and the history of economic thought. Some of her publications include:

• Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age (1973)
• Common Security and Civil Society in Africa (1999) (Co-Editor)
• Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (2001)
• Language and Empire, circa 1800 (Historical Research, 2005)