Professor Jan De Vries FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
Economics, History

Current post

Professor of History and Economics, University of California, Berkeley

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Professor Stefan Dercon FBA

Applied economic analysis studying what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa and South Asia, and how to achieve change

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Professor Simon Burgess FBA

I study education using the tools of applied economics: schools (choice, competition, accountability), teachers (effectiveness, development, pay), and pupils (motivations, effort, ethnicity)

Professor Simon Burgess FBA

Professor Mark Casson FBA

Economics of business: theories of entrepreneurship and international business, with historical applications to medieval towns and industries, Victorian railways and twentieth-century multinational firms

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