Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
About
Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research analyzes the long-run historical determinants of the political and economic development patterns that we observe today, with a focus on Europe and Eurasia. Dincecco has published numerous articles in leading academic journals across both political science and economics. He has written three books: Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650-1913 (Cambridge, 2011), State Capacity and Economic Development: Present and Past (Cambridge, 2017), and From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe (Cambridge, 2017, with Massimiliano Onorato), the winner of the William Riker Best Book Award. Dincecco currently serves as Editor of the Elements in Political Economy Series for Cambridge University Press. In 2016-17, he was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dincecco received his PhD in Economics from UCLA.
Fields of Study:
- Political and Economic Development
