Henry Farrell (political scientist)

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

Books

 * 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.