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2025年3月19日

4:30pm

Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Jacob Soll

Professor Jacob Soll is a leading historian, public intellectual and a University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California. His work spans the history of political thought, the history of accounting, and the role of information in the development of modern states. Much of his work has been animated by the question of why succeed or fail, and the lessons these historical cases can teach us. His sage advice on economic questions is regularly sought by policy makers throughout the world. Professor Soll’s works are widely recognized by the academia, and he has been awarded several distinguished fellowships and lectureships throughout the world, namely a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and the Huygens-Descartes Lectureship at the Akadamie van Wetenschappen in Amsterdam.

Please register for the public lecture via:

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13699153.

Mr Ben Law (3943 7573 / Benlaw@cuhk.edu.hk)

This year the United College has selected Professor Jacob Soll as the distinguished visiting scholar, who is the University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California. In the first public lecture, Professor Soll will introduce how Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who served as the first French minister, built the first large-scale modern market by reforming the tax system, tariff system and the industry. This still provides valuable lessons today of what to do and not to do to build a successful industrial economy.

1. The lecture will be conducted in English.
2. The deadline of registration is by noon, 3 March 2025.