István Hont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Economics historian
Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1947
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Date of Death: 29-Mar-2013
Profession: university teacher
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About István Hont
- István Hont (15 April 1947 – 29 March 2013) was a Hungarian-born British historian of economics and political thought, University Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge.Hont was supervised as a doctoral student at Oxford by Hugh Trevor Roper.
- He was elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1978.
- From 1978 to 1984 he directed a King's College Research Centre project 'Political Economy and Society 1750–1850' with Michael Ignatieff, out of which grew their co-edited volume Wealth and Virtue.
- Hont was invited to be a professor in political thought at Columbia University, and was a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1993–4., but remained at Cambridge until his death.
- He and Raymond Geuss organized the Cambridge Seminars in Political Thought and Intellectual History for 2007/8, attracting a range of international scholars to participate in the seminar series.Though Hont's scholarly articles – on such figures as David Hume and Adam Smith, and on such themes as the Scottish Enlightenment, commerce, nationalism, national debt, luxury and political economy – have won awards for breaking new ground, the scope and nature of his overall ambition were difficult to gauge until the articles were collected together in Jealousy of Trade.
- An extended introduction to Jealousy of Trade emphasized the absence of economic questions in the seventeenth-century thought of Thomas Hobbes, traced (via Samuel Pufendorf) the eighteenth-century emergence of commerce as a problem for political theory, and used eighteenth-century debates about the interaction of politics and commerce to suggest a new perspective for thinking about economic nationalism in the nineteenth century and beyond.
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