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Professor Patrick O'Brien FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1991
Subjects
Economics, History
Sections
Economics and Economic History
Website
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/People/Faculty-and-teachers/Professor-Patrick-OBrien

Current post

London School of Economics and Political Science Professor Emeritus of Global Economic History

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Global Economic History

2009 - 2015

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Centennial Professor of Economic History

1999 - 2009

Institute of Historical Research University of London Professor of Economic History, Director

1990 - 1998

University of Oxford Lecturer, Reader in Economic History

1970 - 1990

Publications

Urban Achievement in early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London

Published in 2000

The Costs and Benefits of European Imperialism

Published in 1998

The economic effects of the American civil war

Published in 1988

Two paths for the 20th century. Economic growth in Britain and France 1789-1914

Published in 1978

The revolution in Egypt's economic system

Published in 1966

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Margaret E. Slade FBA

Industrial Organisation: horizontal issues such as mergers, joint dominance, and collusion; vertical issues such as vertical integration, contracting, and restraints; and apatial issues such as competition in geographic and product-characteristic space

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Professor Francesco Caselli FBA

Economic development and, in particular, technology choice and transfer; politics and development; economics of natural-resource abundance

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Professor Thomas Piketty FBA

Historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. These works have led to emphasise the role of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution

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