Stephen Broadberry appointed Director of the Economic History Programme

Stephen is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, and a Research Theme Leader at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy at the University or Warwick. He has also taught at the Universities of Warwick, Oxford, Cardiff, and British Columbia and held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Humboldt University, Berlin, and UPF Barcelona.

His research interests include the development of the world economy from 1000 AD to the present; historical national accounts for Britain since 1086; the Great Divergence of productivity and living standards between Europe and Asia; sectoral aspects of comparative growth and productivity performance during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; productivity in services; wars and economic performance. He is currently Editor of the Economic History Review, and has previously been Editor of the European Review of Economic History. He has been President-of the European Historical Economics Society and is currently a Trustee of the Economic History Association and the Asian Historical Economics Society, and an Executive Committee Member of the Economic History Society. His books include The British Economy Between the Wars: A Macroeconomic Survey (Blackwell, 1986); The Productivity Race, 1850-1990: British Manufacturing in International Perspective, 1850-1990 (CUP, 1997); Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: British Performance in International Perspective (CUP, 2006), the 2-volume Cambridge Economic History of Europe, edited with Kevin O'Rourke (CUP, 2010) and the forthcoming British Economic Growth, 1270-1870, co-authored with Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen (CUP).