- Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1994 to 2000)
- Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge (from 1994 to 1997)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 1994)
- Co-Director, Cambridge Group for History of Population Social Structure, Cambridge (from 1974 to 1994)
- Professor of Population Studies, London School of Economics (from 1979 to 1988)
- Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (from 1958 to 1974)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 1949 to 1958)
- Economic and demographic history in England in the period between the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria
- Reconstruction of the history of the changing occupational structure of England in the period c.1750-c.1850
- Poverty, Progress and Population (CUP, 2004)
- (jointly) English Population History from Family Reconstitution (CUP, 1997)
- (ed. with R. A. Church) The Industrial Revolutions (Blackwell Publishers, 1994)
- Continuity, Chance and Change (CUP, 1988)
- People, Cities and Wealth: The Transformation of Traditional Society (Basil Blackwell, 1987)
- (edited jointly) The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus (Pickering, 1986)
- Publications (PDF)
- President, British Society for Population Studies (from 1977 to 1979)
- President, Economic History Society (from 1995 to 1998)
- Chairman, Population Investigation Committee (from 1984 to 1990)
- Treasurer, British Academy (from 1989 to 1995)
- Chairman, Newton Trust (from 2000 to 2007)
- Editor, Economic History Review (from 1989 to 1992)
- Member, American Philosophical Society (2001)
- Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
- Leverhulme Medal, British Academy (2005).
- Founder's Medal, Royal Geographical Society (1997).
- IUSSP Laureate (1993).
- Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief, The Economist (from 1995)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 1995)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1987)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1977 to 1980)
- Modern America, meritocracy, talent wars, God
- Surveys on entrepreneurship, talent, telecommunications, education, multinational companies, management consultancy and American foreign policy
- (with John Micklethwait) God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World (Penguin, 2009)
- (with John Micklethwait), The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library, 2005)
- (with John Micklethwait) The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (Penguin, 2004)
- (with John Micklethwait) A Future Perfect: The Promise and Peril of Globalization (Heinemann, 2000)
- The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (Time Books, 1996)
- Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England 1880–1990 (CUP, 1994)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1989 to 1996)
- Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1986 to 1989)
- Internet communications and technology
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981)
- Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1976 to 1981)
- Assistant Professor then Professor of Political Science, McGill University (from 1961 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1956 to 1961)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1952 to 1956)
- Undergraduate, McGill University (from 1949 to 1952)
- A Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Modern Social Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2004)
- Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Harvard University Press, 2002)
- Philosophical Arguments (Harvard University Press, 1995)
- The Ethics of Authenticity (Harvard University Press, 1992)
- Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (CUP, 1989)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
- University Professor, Columbia University
- Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank (from 1997 to 2000)
- Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Member of Cabinet) (from 1995 to 1997)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979)
- Drummond Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1976 to 1979)
- Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford University (from 1973 to 1974)
- Nobel Prize in Economics (2001)
- John Bates Clark Award, American Economic Association (1979)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
- Wolfson College, Oxford (from 1988 to 1990)
- Mansfield College, Oxford (from 1984 to 1988)
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Psychoanalysis
- Driving with Plato (Profile Books, forthcoming 2011)
- Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2010)
- Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life (Profile Books, 2009)
- Derrida and Autobiography (CUP, 1995)
- Link to publications
- Founder editor, Angelaki (1993)
- Founder member, Forum for European Philosophy
- Vice-Master, Downing College and Head of Department (from 2007)
- Professor of Historical Geography and Demography (from 2003)
- University of Cambridge, Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population Studies and Fellow, Downing College (from 1994)
- Reader in Historical Demography, Cambridge (from 1994 to 2003)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1994)
- Reader, History of Medicine and Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford (from 1990 to 1994)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 1994)
- University Lecturer in Historical Demography, University of Oxford (from 1983 to 1989)
- Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (from 1979 to 1983)
- Assistant Lecturer in Historical Geography, University of Cambridge (from 1974 to 1983)
- Postgraduate, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (from 1967 to 1974)
- Undergraduate, University College London (from 1964 to 1967)
- Medieval English peasant inheritance practices and their impact on property exchanges and social and kinship networks
- Problems of the use of manorial court rolls for the analysis of medieval marriage practices
- Historical demography
- The social history of medicine
- President, Economic History Society
- Co-editor, Economic History Review
- Co-editor of Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
- Editorial board of Continuity and Change
- Editorial board of The History of the Family
- Geographical Tripos (Undergraduate Level—Historical Geography and Historical Demography)
- MPhil in Geographical Research
- MPhil in Economic and Social History
- PhD supervision in Historical Demography, Agrarian History and Historical Geography
- AHRC (2006–9) Private law and medieval village society: personal actions in manorial courts 1250–1350 £380,000.
- ESRC (2008–11 jointly with Dr M. Davies, University of London) Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London £886,363.
- Fellow and Tutor in English, and Senior Tutor, Hertford College (from 1998)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 1998)
- Undergraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 1988 to 1991)
- Shakespeare’s reception in print, performance and criticism
- Early modern drama
- History of the Book
- Shakespeare and early modern literature to undergraduates and graduates
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2007)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2000)
- Late Roman, Byzantine and early medieval socio-economic, cultural, and legal history
- Professor of Philosophy, New York University (from 2000 to 2004)
- Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1989 to 2000)
- Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy, Kings College London (from 1985 to 1988)
- Fellow and Tutor, New College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1985)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1975 to 1979)
- Visiting Lecturer, University of California Berkeley (from 1975 to 1976)
- Junior Research Fellow, Queen’s College, Oxford (from 1973 to 1975)
- Senior Scholar, Merton College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1973)
- Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University (from 1971 to 1972)
- Undergraduate, Exeter College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1971)
- Truly Understood (New York: OUP, 2008)
- The Realm of Reason (New York: OUP, 2004)
- Being Known (New York: OUP, 1999)
- A Study of Concepts (MIT Press, 1992)
- Thoughts: An Essay on Content (B. Blackwell, 1986)
- Sense and Content: Experience, Thought, and their Relations (New York: OUP, 1983)
- Holistic Explanation: Action, Space, Interpretation (New York: OUP, 1979)
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