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Ian Kumekawa is a Lecturer in History at MIT and a historian at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College (2012), an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (2013), and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (2020). His research focuses on the history of economic thinking, imperial statecraft, global capitalism, and the digital humanities, with a particular emphasis on network visualizations.
- Current Projects: Working on The Business State: State Capture in the British Empire (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
- Recent Publications: Empty Vessel: The Global Economy in One Barge (Knopf, 2025), The First Serious Optimist: A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics (Princeton UP, 2017).
His work bridges economic history and imperial studies, examining how economic ideas and institutions shaped global capitalism. Awards include the Joseph J. Spengler Prize (2017) and the Craufurd Goodwin Prize (2025). He has collaborated on policy briefs, including a Safra Center white paper on pandemic response.
