Ian Kumekawa is a historian based at MIT and Harvard. He is the author of Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge (Knopf, 2025) and The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics (Princeton University Press, 2017), which won the Joseph J. Spengler Prize.
Ian Kumekawa
Articles
Power Hangs by a Literal Thread
Ian Kumekawa dives into Samanth Subramanian’s “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”
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