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Henry Farrell
Born (1970-06-30) June 30, 1970 (age 53)
Ireland
NationalityIrish-American
Academic background
Alma materGeorgetown University (Ph.D.)
University College Dublin (B.A. and M.A.)
Academic work
School or traditionPolitical scientist
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Henry Farrell is an Irish-born political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from Georgetown University. His research interests include, trust and co-operation; E-commerce; the European Union; and institutional theory.

Work[edit]

Farrell is a member of the Crooked Timber group blog.[1][1] He has written articles on blogging for Foreign Policy[2] and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[3] He has written for the Washington Post blog, Monkey Cage.[2] He published a piece in The Economist in 2023 on the "religious schism" seen among AI engineers,[3] and another piece on the similarity of AI models to older forms of knowledge integration.[4]

Farrell taking part in a BloggingHeads.tv conversation.

Books[edit]

  • The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany (2009) Cambridge University Press.
  • Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle Over Freedom and Security (with Abraham L. Newman) (2019) Princeton University Press.
  • Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, Henry Holt, 2023, 288 pp.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tom Regan Berlusconi: 'I tried to get Bush to not invade Iraq', (October 31, 2005) Christian Science Monitor
  2. ^ Robert Collier. Opinion: Seeds of leak scandal sown in Italian intelligence agency (October 30, 2005), SF Gate.
  3. ^ Unfiled. Opinion: Merlot Democrats, Google Republicans (December 27, 2005), Washington Times
  4. ^ K. Daniel Glover. Blogroll: The Rise of Blogs, National Journal, January 2006
  5. ^ Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell. Web of Influence, Foreign Policy, November 2004
  6. ^ Farrell, Henry. The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas Chronicle of Higher Education, November 2005 (reprinted in The Australian, December 2005)

More references[edit]

  1. ^ Simon, Scott (January 29, 2005). "When Web Rumors Run Amok". NPR.
  2. ^ Farrell, Henry (September 9, 2014). "Blog: Why Reddit sucks: some scientific evidence". Washington Post. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Farrell, Henry (December 12, 2023). "AI's big rift is like a religious schism, says Henry Farrell". The Economist (By invitation). ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  4. ^ Farrell, Henry; Shalizi, Cosma (June 21, 2023). "Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster, say Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi". The Economist (By invitation). ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-12-22.

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