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Economic history

Merton Miller, who started his academic career teaching economic history at the LSE, won the Nobel in 1990 with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.


Hans-Georg Stephan

Stephan's areas of specialization include interdisciplinary archaeological research in the first and second millennia A.D., medieval settlement and landscape archaeology, urban topography and architectural history, renaissance material culture (especially ceramics, glass, and oven tiles), economic history (especially pottery, metallurgy and glass production), and archaeometry.

The Great Depression of 1990

The Great Depression of 1990 is a book by Ravi Batra in the field of economic history and future evolution, originally published in 1985.

Wendy Alexander

Alexander attended Park Mains High School in Erskine and won a scholarship to Lester B. Pearson College in British Columbia before studying at the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a First Class MA (Hons) in Economic and Modern History.


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A. G. Hopkins

His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century.

Amintore Fanfani

He was the author of a number of important works on economic history dealing with religion and the development of capitalism in the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe.

António de Vasconcelos Nogueira

Subsequently he gained a Degree and Masters from the University of Lisbon (founded 1290-1308; 1911) and later a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Aveiro, where he undertook post doctoral research in Economic History.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

Daniel Atzori

He holds a Bachelor’s degree cum laude in History and a Master’s degree cum laude in Economic History from the Università degli Studi of Milan.

Edwin Francis Gay

Edwin Francis Gay (October 27, 1867 – February 8, 1946) was an American economist, Professor of Economic History and first Dean of the Harvard Business School.

Halil Berktay

He studies social and economic history (including that of Europe, and especially medieval history) from a comparative perspective.

Hugh Kearney

He is the author of several articles on early modern economic history, a biography on Thomas Wentworth, and the acclaimed book British Isles: A History of Four Nations which advocated a multi-national, "Britannic" approach, rather than an Anglo-centric approach to their history, historiography and sociology.

Ian Luder

Luder attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree then studied Economics and Economic History at University College London (BA) before working as a tax accountant for Arthur Andersen and later Grant Thornton.

James Westfall Thompson

Thompson's two-volume study of the social and economic history of medieval Germany, Feudal Germany, appropriated elements of Frederick Jackson Turner's famous Frontier Thesis and applied them to the colonization of Slavic central Europe by German settlers in the Middle Ages.

Jörg Baten

Since 2001 he holds the chair of economic history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

Kai Brodersen

His research focuses on Greek and Roman historiography and geography, on ancient inscriptions, oracles and wonder-texts, and on the social and economic history as well as reception studies (incl. Asterix).

Katrina Honeyman

She graduated in Economic History and Sociology at the University of York and then gained a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham: her thesis work on the social background of early entrepreneurs was later published as Origins of Enterprise.

Kells, County Meath

For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see JJ Lee “On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses” in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p54, and also “New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol.

Michael Spurr

Prior to joining the Prison Service, Michael graduated from Durham University (St Chad's College) with a BA in Economics and Economic History.

Paloma Fernández

She is member of the council board of the Centre of Studies in Economics and Economic History Antoni de Capmany from Universitat de Barcelona, and of the Entrepreneurial History Discussion Papers website.

Philip Benedict

Benedict’s publications have ranged from economic history to the history of printmaking and information, but have chiefly focused on the social and political history of the Reformation, with primary reference to the French Wars of Religion and the Protestant minority in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.

Richard Sylla

He once served as President of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference, and is currently a Trustee of the Museum of American Finance.

William Rappard

He was Co-Founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (now IHEID), Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Rector of the University of Geneva, Director of the Mandate Department of the League of Nations, and Swiss Representative at the International Labour Organization (ILO), as well as at the United Nations Organization (UN) and at the United States Embassy.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.