Liam Brunt

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+47 55 95 95 31

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+47 55 95 95 43

Title:

Professor, PhD
Oxford University (2000)

Nationality:

British
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching languages:

English

Teaching areas:

Growth and architecture of financial systems

Research areas:

Economic history, International Macro, Finance

Work in progress:

• 'Masuring Trust in English Banking’

• 'Collapses and Contagions in Early English Banking’ (with Edmund Cannon)

• 'English Occupational Structure before and after the Industrial Revolution’ (with Erik Meidell)

• 'Early English Banking Entrepreneurs: What was their Background and Who Was Successful?’ (with Erik Meidell).

• 'Agricultural Land and Labour Productivity around the World, 1700 to 1870: Evidence from a New Data Set’ (with Antonio Fidalgo).

• 'Death and Taxes: the Drivers of Industrialization’ (with Antonio Fidalgo)

• 'Urbanization and Economic Growth’ (with Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa)

Selected publications :

• 'Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass: the Market for Fertiliser in the Industrial Revolution.’ Economic History Review, 60 (part 2), 2007, 333-72.

• 'Rediscovering Risk: English Country Banks as Proto-Venture Capital Firms in the Industrial Revolution.’ Journal of Economic History, 66 (part 1), 2006, 74-102.

•  'Nature or Nurture? Explaining English Wheat Yields in the Agricultural Revolution.’ Journal of Economic History, 64 (part 1), 2004, 193-225.

• 'The Irish Grain Trade from the Famine to the First World War.’ Economic History Review, 57 (part 1), 2004, 33-79.

• 'Mechanical Innovation in the Industrial Revolution: the Case of Plough Design.’ Economic History Review, 56 (part 3), 2003, 444-77.

• 'Rehabilitating Arthur Young.’ Economic History Review, 56 (part 2), 2003, 265-99.

• 'The Advent of the Sample Survey in the Social Sciences.’ Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series D, 50 (part 2), 2001, 179-189.

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