Publications
Coming August 2026 from Cambridge University Press
Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France
Princeton University Press, 2019
Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815
Princeton University Press, 1996
Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association, 1997
Allan Sharlin Prize, Social Science History Association, 1997
Articles
- Guinnane and Hoffman (2025) "Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration," Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 112, (3), 359-390. Download
- Hoffman, Philip T. (2015) What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History. Journal of Economic History, 75 (2). pp. 303-332. ISSN 0022-0507. Download
- Hoffman, Philip T. (2012) Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World? Journal of Economic History, 72 (3). pp. 601-633. ISSN 0022-0507. Download
- Hoffman, Philip T. (2011) Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence. Economic History Review, 64 (S1). pp. 39-59. ISSN 0013-0117. Download
Working Papers
A complete list can be found on Professor Hoffman's working papers page.