Ruoyu Han completed the MLitt in Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews and received his PhD in History of Political Thought from the University of Cambridge in 2024. His thesis, Commerce, Credit, and Capitalism: Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, 1688–1776, examines the various ways in which the political and social ramifications of the Financial Revolution were theorized by Scottish political economists in the eighteenth century. It recovers a debate about the ambivalent relationship between monetary innovation, societal transformation, and political constitution. The thesis is currently being revised into a monograph.
His research for the THP will explore political theories of money from the Federalists to Karl Marx, investigating in particular the relationship between monetary revolution and the discourse of social justice in the context of European imperial expansion.
