Eric Schliesser is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. His research encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from economic statistics in classical Babylon, the history of the natural sciences and forgotten eighteenth-century feminists, to political theory and the assumptions used in mathematical economics. His recent publications include Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker (Oxford University Press, 2017) and a translation with commentary of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (together with Sandrine Bergès).
