Jacob Soll is Professor of Philosophy, History, and Accounting at the University of Southern California.
He is the author of:
"Free Market: The History of an Idea" (2022)
"The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" (2014)
"The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's State Information System" (2009)
"Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism" (2005)
Soll received a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1995, a Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK in 1998, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011.
He lives in Los Angeles, California