Professor Sir Tim Besley FBA

Economic policy; economic history; political economics; East Asia; China
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2001
Subjects
Economics, Politics

Current post

School Professor of Economics and Political Science and W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Past appointments

All Souls College, Oxford Fellow

2016 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London School Professor of Economics and Political Science and W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics

2015 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London School Professor of Economics and Political Science & W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics

1995 - 2015

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Economics

1995 -

Princeton Assistant Professor of Economics

1989 - 1995

All Souls College University of Oxford Prize Fellow

1984 - 1989

Publications

Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government 2006

Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters (with Torsten Persson) 2011

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Joseph Stiglitz FBA

Economics of information, economics of uncertainty, risk and agriculture, financial markets, growth and capital theory, natural resources, theory of market structure R&D, macroeconomics, monetary economics, international economics, development, distribution of income and wealth, welfare economics, comparative economic systems/organization theory, political economy, theory of taxation/public finance, theory of public expenditures

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Professor Ted Marmor FBA

The comparative study of welfare state politics and policy, with special emphasis on medical care and pension issues in North America and Western Europe

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Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides FBA

Economic policy; social divisions and inequalities; economic sociology; social statistics

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