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Stefan Eich is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University. His research is in political theory, intellectual history, and the history of political thought, especially the political theory of money and the politics of financial capitalism. He was the 2022/23 Richard B. Fisher Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).
He is the author of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton University Press, May 2022), which was awarded the 2023 APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Political Theory, American Journal of Political Science, Modern Intellectual History, History & Theory, Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, and Finance & Society. With Martijn Konings, he co-edits a book series at Stanford University Press on "Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times."
Prior to Georgetown, he was a fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows and received his doctorate from Yale University. Having grown up in Germany, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and received a masters in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge.