Financial History
John Handel is a financial and economic historian with a particular focus on historical and contemporary financial market micro-structure, back office financial infrastructure, the relationship between finance and technology, and investment banking.
He is Research Director for the Center for Economy and Society and an Associate Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University.
Overview
This website is a collection of John Handel’s work as a historian.
It brings together research, writing, teaching, and media related to the history of finance, technology, and political economy, with a focus on nineteenth-century Britain and its global connections.