Noah Sutter – Economic Historian
Quantitative Economic History with Big Data
I am a quantitative economic historian at the London School of Economics interested in questions of elite change and elite persistence. I work with big self-collected datasets.
I am fascinated by the long nineteenth century and the transitions it has brought onto the world.
I am currently a PhD student in Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. My supervisors are Neil Cummins and Mohamed Saleh.
Research
Explore my research projects and papers.
Work in Progress
Explore my ongoing works in progress.
“Swiss Slavery” – The Case of Berbice
With Florentine Friedrich
Revolution in the Rauracian Republic
Elite Persistence in Historical Perspective
”il n’y a plus de noblesse aujourd’hui, il n’y a plus qu’une aristocratie.”
Honoré de Balzac, H. (1947). Comédie Humaine: Le cabinet des antiques, p. 459
Recent Conferences
We might have met at a recent conference. In the past months I have attended the following workshops and conferences.
EHA 2025 – Philadelphia, PA
Poster Session
WEHC 2025 – Lund
Session on the Political Economy of the French Revolution
IT18 Winter School – Canazei
Blog – Crisis and Critique
In this blog I publish more general musings about economic history that are not based on empirical research but inspired by my reading, research, teaching, and my colleagues. I try to write about what inspires my research – what Marx has called the bourgeois revolution, what Palmer has called the Democratic Revolution, what Polanyi called Great Transformation, what Koselleck – namesake for this blog – saw as the beginning of the permanent crisis of world history.
Explore my most recent blog posts.
Thoughts on Guido Alfani’s idea on Aristocratization
The Origins of Rational Economic Behaviour
Nous n’avons jamais été modernes – What were modernization theories right about?
Get in Touch!
Email me using N.W.Sutter[at]lse.ac.uk or using the following form:
