Biography

Peter Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the department of government at Harvard University and a resident faculty member at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He has written widely about developments in the OECD political economies, the role of ideas and institutions in politics, methods of political science, European politics and issues of social inequality. His publications include Governing the Economy (Oxford University Press, 1986), The Political Power of Economic Ideas (Princeton University Press, 1989), Varieties of Capitalism (with D. Soskice, Oxford University Press, 2001), Changing France (with P. Culpepper and B. Palier, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Successful Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era (with M. Lamont, Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (with Georgina Evans and Sung In Kim, Cambridge University Press, 2023) as well as more than a hundred articles on politics and policymaking in Europe. His current research focuses on changes in growth regimes and electoral politics in the developed democracies.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), he co-chairs the Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800.

Affiliations

• Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University
• Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University