Professor Sir Tim Besley FBA

Economic policy; economic history; political economics; East Asia; China

Elected 2001

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2001
Subjects: Economics, Politics
Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/tim-besley

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

Jan 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

Jul 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

Jul 1995 - Jul 2015

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

Jan 1995 -

Princeton Assistant Professor of Economics

Jan 1989 - Jan 1995

All Souls College University of Oxford Prize Fellow

Jan 1984 - Jan 1989

Publications

Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government 2006

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

Related Fellows

Professor John Hobson FBA

International Relations and International Political Economy; historiography of; sociological theory of; global economy and international system, 1492-present; West/non-West relations in long-run perspective

Professor Archie Brown FBA

Communist Politics, Political Leadership, End of the Cold War, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta FBA

Economics

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