Bio

Pavel Kuchař is a lecturer at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s Pavel worked at the University of Bristol, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China). He holds a PhD in Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Economics and Law (IEL) from the University of Turin (Italy) and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic).

Pavel’s research has been focused on theories of entrepreneurship, economics of institutions and the history of economics and his work has been published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Research in the History of Economic Thought and MethodologyRevue d’Economie Politique, Econ Journal Watch, Schmoller’s Jahrbuch, or Cosmos+Taxis. Currently Pavel and his coauthor work on an edited volume for the Cambridge University Press series on Knowledge Commons. Look here for a complete list of his publications.

Among other courses, Pavel has taught History of Economic Thought (look here for a reading list) or Principles of Economics (reading list here). For a complete list of courses and teaching materials look here.

Pavel is a citizen of the Czech Republic, and besides his mother tongue (Czech) he speaks English, Spanish and has basic communication skills in Italian.