Alex Klein is a Reader in Economics at the University of Kent. He received his PhD from CERGE-EI Prague in 2006. He was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Jagiellonian University, Krakow in 2006-2007 and the University of Warwick in 2008-2010. He joined the University of Kent in 2011, and is the Deputy Director of the Macroeconomics, Growth and History Centre (MaGHiC)

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Labour scarcity and labour coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
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- Economic history 
- Institutions and economics 
- Labour Markets

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Moving around: The changing geography of US manufacturing during the 20th century
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- Industrial organisation
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US cities and productivity in the railroad era
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- Economic history 
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