Peter A. Hall

Professor of Political Science
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University

Peter A. Hall teaches at Harvard University, where he is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and currently Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

He is at present working on the methodology of political science, the contribution of institutional analysis to the study of political economy and the political responses to international integration in postwar Europe. He is the author of over sixty articles, as well as of Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France (1986). He is an editor of Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001), Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (2006), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001), Developments in French Politics II (2001), The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations (1989).

Peter A. Hall serves on the editorial boards of many journals and the advisory boards of several European academic and research institutes (American Political Science Review, Governance, World Politics, Free University of Berlin, Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress). He was President of the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association APSA (2003-2005) and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2003.