Education
Brought up in Switzerland, he studied at the University of Siena, and later received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Brought up in Switzerland, he studied at the University of Siena, and later received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
In 1992 he was made a lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics, by 1997 he had been appointed reader, and in 2001 professor Epstein"s Doctor of Philosophy thesis was on economic development and social transformation in late medieval Sicily. Later he expanded his research to a greater European scale, with his 2000 book Freedom and Growth, where he explored the interaction between state formation and economic development.
Epstein also worked on the history of technology, and on the influence of guilds on technological development in medieval Europe.