Professor Avner Offer FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2000
- Subjects
- Economics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Summary
Avner Offer, FBA is Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College. He was raised in Israel and educated in Jerusalem and Oxford. Initially he wrote about land tenure and the economics of war, and published Property and Politics 1870-1914 (CUP, 1981), and The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (OUP, 1989) as well as many articles. Subsequently he focused on consumption and the quality of life and has published The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (OUP, 2006) as well as articles and edited books on reciprocity ('the economy of regard'), well-being, working-class experience, and the social determinants of obesity. Currently he is studying the transition from Social Democracy to Market Liberalism. Articles have covered Adam Smith and the invisible hand, the economy of obligation, and the American health system. The next book is The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy and the Market Turn (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2016, with Gabriel Saderberg). Another current strand of work investigates the links of finance, real estate, and household debts and assets.
Current post
Chichele Professor of Economic History Emeritus, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Chichele Professor of Economic History
2000 -
University of Oxford Reader in Recent Social and Economic History
1992 - 2000
Australian National University Research Fellow
1985 - 1988
University of York Lecturer and Reader
1979 - 1991
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Colin Mayer FBA
Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society
Professor Kenneth Wallis FBA
Time series analysis: forecasting and seasonal adjustment; analysis of forecast surveys and forecast uncertainty; density forecast evaluation. Macroeconometric modelling: comparative studies and policy evaluation in national-economy and multicountry models.
