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 Giancarlo Corsetti FBA

Economic policy and international economics, with focus on currency, financial and debt crises, European monetary union and open economy macroeconomics

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Professor Orazio Attanasio FBA

Economics South America Colombia South Asia India Economic Policy USA, Canada and/or Mexico Mexico

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Professor Susan Athey FBA

Industrial Organization; Market Design; Statistical Methods for Causal Inference

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