Margaret C. Jacob is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA. Previous publications include The Secular Enlightenment (2019, Princeton University), The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Selected Texts (Bedford Books, 2001; second edition, 2017), and The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 (2014, Cambridge University Press).

Margaret C. Jacob is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA. Previous publications include The Secular Enlightenment (2019, Princeton University), The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Selected Texts (Bedford Books, 2001; second edition, 2017), and The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 (2014, Cambridge University Press).

Margaret C. Jacob is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA. Previous publications include The Secular Enlightenment (2019, Princeton University), The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Selected Texts (Bedford Books, 2001; second edition, 2017), and The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850 (2014, Cambridge University Press).