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 Rana Mitter FBA

The history and politics of modern China; history of twentieth-century China, in particular the Republican period (1912-1949) and Cold War; contemporary Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations

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Professor Christian Dustmann FBA

Labour Economics (inequality, wage structures, minimum wages; peer effects); the Economics of Migration; the Economics of Education; the Economics of Crime; Population Economics

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Professor Richard Little FBA

International Relations theory; historiography; Realism and English school thinking; intervention into civil wars; the balance of power; the historical evolution of the international society

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