The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871
Edited by Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson
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Edited by Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics, emeritus, Harvard University
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and the Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989. He has previously taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Columbia University, and Sciences Po, Paris. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy, and has served as President of the European Historical Economics Society, and Vice-President of the Economic History Association. He has worked extensively on the history of the international economy.
Jeffrey Gale Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics, emeritus, Harvard University, Honorary Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Associate NBER and Research Fellow CEPR. President of the Economic History Association (1994-1995), Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department (1997-2000), and Master of Harvard's Mather House (1986-1993), his most recent books are: Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (2016, with Peter Lindert) The Cambridge History of Capitalism (2 vols. 2014, edited with Larry Neal) Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind (2011) Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 (2006) and Global Migration and the World Economy (2005, with Timothy Hatton).
Contributors:
Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge
Jean-Pascal Bassino, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Agustín Bénétrix, Trinity College Dublin
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
Gerardo della Paolera, Universidad de San Andres
Xavier Duran, Universidad de los Andes School of Management
Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University
Matteo Gomellini , Banca d'Italia
Aurora Gómez Galvarriato, Harvard University
Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick
Martin Ivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University
Ula? Karakoç, London School of Economics
Alexander Klein, University of Kent
Michael Kopsidis, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
Debin Ma, London School of Economics
Andrei Markevich, The New Economic School
Graciela Márquez Colín, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Kevin O'Rourke, All Souls College, Oxford
?evket Pamuk, The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
Laura Panza, University of Melbourne
Dwight Perkins, Harvard University
Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics
Max-Stephan Schulze, London School of Economics
John Tang, Australian National University
Gianni Toniolo, Duke University
Tamás Vonyó, Bocconi University
Jeffrey Williamson, emeritus, Harvard University