Avner Offer
British historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Avner Offer is an economic historian who held the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a fellow of the British Academy. He has published on international political economy, law, the First World War and land tenure. During the 1990s and 2000s, Offer's main interest was in post-war economic growth, particularly in developed societies, and the challenges that affluence presents to well being. His most recent work is on the strife between neoclassical economics and social democracy, each of them vying to shape the post-war decades. Apart from his academic work, he has published a memoir of the Six Day War in Israel.
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- A genome-wide association study in Europeans and South Asians identifies five new loci for coronary artery disease (2011) (638)
- Between the gift and the market: the economy of regard (1997) (336)
- The challenge of affluence : self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (2007) (268)
- Lipids and Lipoproteins and Risk of Different Vascular Events in the MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study (2012) (195)
- Household appliances and the use of time: the United States and Britain since the 1920s (1994) (176)
- Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: the effect of fast food, insecurity, and inequality. (2010) (172)
- The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. (1990) (154)
- Esophageal cancer and body mass index: Results from a prospective study of 220,000 men in China and a meta‐analysis of published studies (2007) (124)
- The joint effects of apolipoprotein B, apolipoprotein A1, LDL cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol on risk: 3510 cases of acute myocardial infarction and 9805 controls† (2009) (114)
- Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914 (2003) (110)
- Body mass index and mortality in China: a 15-year prospective study of 220 000 men. (2012) (104)
- Impact of common genetic variation on response to simvastatin therapy among 18 705 participants in the Heart Protection Study (2012) (97)
- In pursuit of the quality of life (1996) (82)
- British Manual Workers: From Producers to Consumers, c. 1950–2000 (2008) (73)
- Time series citation data: the Nobel Prize in economics (2013) (69)
- Body weight and self-control in the United States and Britain since the 1950s. (2001) (66)
- The Challenge Of Affluence (2006) (65)
- Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, and Mortality From Stroke: A Nationally Representative Prospective Study of 212 000 Chinese Men (2008) (65)
- The British empire, 1870-1914: a waste of money? (1993) (57)
- Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-Being (2000) (56)
- Body mass index and mortality from ischaemic heart disease in a lean population: 10 year prospective study of 220,000 adult men. (2006) (56)
- Impact of Apolipoprotein(a) Isoform Size on Lipoprotein(a) Lowering in the HPS2-THRIVE Study (2018) (55)
- Farm tenure and land values in England, c. 1750‐1950 (1991) (54)
- Lipoprotein‐associated phospholipase A2 activity and mass in relation to vascular disease and nonvascular mortality (2010) (47)
- Why Has the Public Sector Grown So Large in Market Societies?: The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, C.1870-2000 (2002) (43)
- Epidemics of Abundance: Overeating and Slimming in the USA and Britain since the 1950s (1998) (42)
- Property and Politics 1870-1914. (1983) (41)
- Empire and Social Reform: British Overseas Investment and Domestic Politics, 1908–1914 (1983) (39)
- Self-interest, Sympathy and the Invisible Hand: From Adam Smith to Market Liberalism (2012) (37)
- Dueling: The Cult of Honor in fin-de-siècle Germany (1996) (36)
- The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn (2016) (33)
- Going to War in 1914: A Matter of Honor? (1995) (33)
- Property and Politics, 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. (1983) (31)
- The Market Turn: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism (2017) (29)
- Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921. (1990) (29)
- Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (2010) (25)
- The Markup for Lemons: Quality and Uncertainty in American and British Used-Car Markets, c. 1953-1973 (2007) (25)
- Ricardo's Paradox and the Movement of Rents in England, c. 1870–1910 (1980) (25)
- The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian Politics in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846-1919. (1996) (24)
- The Nobel Factor (2019) (24)
- Independent risk factors for simvastatin-related myopathy and relevance to different types of muscle symptom (2020) (23)
- Narrow banking, real estate, and financial stability in the UK, c.1870-2010 (2013) (19)
- Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History (2000) (19)
- A Prize in ‘Economic Sciences’ (2019) (18)
- Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies (2012) (18)
- Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain, 1780–1980 (2002) (17)
- 8. The Technological Revolution That Never Was: Gender, Class, and the Diffusion of Household Appliances in Interwar England (1996) (16)
- The Economy of Obligation: Incomplete Contracts and the Cost of the Welfare State (2012) (16)
- The American Automobile Frenzy of the 1950s (1996) (16)
- CHARLES FEINSTEIN (1932–2005), AND BRITISH HISTORICAL NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (2008) (15)
- A Warrant for Pain: Caveat Emptor vs. the Duty of Care in American Medicine, c. 1970-2010 (2012) (12)
- Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-Being, [revised version, March 2000] (2000) (11)
- Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplements on Arrhythmias. (2020) (11)
- Environmental and genetic risk factors for myopathy in Chinese participants from HPS2-THRIVE (2012) (11)
- Assessment of Vascular Event Prevention and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults With Preexisting Vascular Disease or Diabetes (2019) (10)
- THE ORIGINS OF THE LAW OF PROPERTY ACTS 1910–251 (1977) (10)
- Obesity under Affluence Varies by Welfare Regimes (2012) (10)
- A Biomarker-based Biological Age in UK Biobank: Composition and Prediction of Mortality and Hospital Admissions (2021) (10)
- Using the Past in Britain: Retrospect and Prospect (1984) (9)
- THE WORKING CLASSES, BRITISH NAVAL PLANS AND THE COMING OF THE GREAT WAR* (1985) (8)
- The Blockade of Germany and the Strategy of Starvation, 1914-1918: An Agency Perspective (2000) (8)
- Morality and Admiralty: 'Jacky' Fisher, Economic Warfare and the Laws of War (1988) (8)
- AND BRITISH HISTORICAL NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (2008) (6)
- Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies. By Peter Liberman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 250. $35.00 (1997) (6)
- Self-interest, Sympathy and the Invisible Hand (2012) (6)
- Economic Welfare Measurement and Human Well-Being (2007) (5)
- Household appliances and ‘systems of provision’: a reply (1999) (4)
- Costs and Benefits, Prosperity, and Security, 1870–1914 (1999) (4)
- Landscape economics (2021) (4)
- The markup for lemons: quality and (2007) (4)
- Hayek in Citations and the Nobel Memorial Prize (2013) (3)
- Household Appliances and the Use of Time1 (2007) (3)
- Monday, 27 August 2012 (2012) (3)
- The Challenge of Affluence: Interview with Avner Offer (2007) (3)
- The Economy of Regard (2007) (3)
- Regard for Others (2014) (3)
- Body Weight and Self-Control (2007) (3)
- The Technological Revolution that Never Was: Gender, Class, and the Home Appliance Market in Interwar England (2011) (3)
- Patient and impatient capital: time horizons as market boundaries (2018) (3)
- Effects of aspirin on dementia and cognitive function in diabetic patients: the ASCEND trial (2022) (2)
- The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being since 1950 (2006) (2)
- Charles Hilliard Feinstein (1932–2004) (2017) (2)
- Land and Map: The Survey of Palestine, 1920-1948 (1993) (2)
- The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2018) (2)
- Consumption and affluence, c. 1870–2010 (2014) (2)
- Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being (2002) (2)
- Biological age in UK Biobank: biomarker composition and prediction of mortality, coronary heart disease and hospital admissions (2019) (2)
- Economic interpretation of war: the German submarine campaign, 1915-18 (1989) (2)
- Genetic associations of adult height with risk of cardioembolic and other subtypes of ischaemic stroke: a Mendelian randomisation study in multiple ancestries (2020) (1)
- Genetic associations of adult height with risk of cardioembolic and other subtypes of ischemic stroke: A mendelian randomization study in multiple ancestries (2022) (1)
- Mathematical Model for Time to Neuronal Apoptosis Due to Accrual of DNA DSBs (2015) (1)
- Planet of Slums (review) (2008) (1)
- The recruitment and selection of young managers by British business 1930-2000 (2004) (1)
- A Warrant for Pain (2014) (1)
- Godwin’s Citations, 1783–2005: Highest Renown at the Pinnacle of Disfavour (2021) (1)
- Lawyers and Land Law Revisited (1994) (1)
- The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi and Family Life between the Wars by Peter Scott (review) (2016) (1)
- The Mask of Intimacy: Advertising and the Quality of Life1 (2007) (1)
- Understanding the Private–Public Divide (2022) (1)
- Obesity and Welfare Regimes (2016) (1)
- Women and Children Last:1 The Retreat from Commitment (2007) (1)
- Nobel Economics and Social Democracy (2019) (1)
- Book Review (1998) (0)
- THEMARKUPFORLEMONS: QUALITYANDUNCERTAINTY INAMERICANANDBRITISH USED-CARMARKETSc.1953 -1973 (2007) (0)
- THE QUESTION OF VICTORIANISM AND PROGRESS IN GASKELL ’ S CRANFORD : A ROMANTICISED (2017) (0)
- The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Second Edition: Volume I: 1700-1860. (1997) (0)
- 2. A Prize in ‘Economic Sciences’ (2016) (0)
- List of Figures and Table (2016) (0)
- Detecting cognitive effects of vascular event prevention in randomized trials (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Swedosclerosis or Pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s (2016) (0)
- Property and politics : a study of landed and urban property in England between the 1880s and the Great War (1979) (0)
- J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2023) (0)
- The Making of the Modern British Home: The Suburban Semi & Family Life between the Wars. By Peter Scott (2016) (0)
- Facing Future Adversity (2013) (0)
- Economic History at Oxford, 1860–2020 (2021) (0)
- A. N. Porter and R. F. Holland, editors. Money, Finance and Empire 1790–1960 . London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.; distributed by Biblio Distribution Centre, Totowa, N.J. 1985. Pp. vii, 184. $19.50. (1987) (0)
- Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on dementia and cognitive Impairment in the ASCEND trial (2022) (0)
- Consumption and Well-Being (2012) (0)
- 7. Nobel Economics and Social Democracy (2016) (0)
- Response to Joanna Bourke (2016) (0)
- 1. Imaginary Machines (2016) (0)
- Beyond Scandinavia: Washington Consensus to Market Corruption (2016) (0)
- List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, 1969– 2015 (2016) (0)
- Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions Between the Wars. Edited by Stephen Constantine. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 208. $59.95 (1992) (0)
- Conclusion: Like Physics or like Literature? (2016) (0)
- Imaginary Machines (2019) (0)
- Body mass index and risk of ischaemic heart disease in an unusually lean population: a prospective study of 220,000 adult men in China (2004) (0)
- Genetic approaches to elucidating our understanding of therapeutic targets (2017) (0)
- Bitter Roots: Finance and Social Democracy between the Wars (2016) (0)
- Economy of liabilities: incomplete contracts and the cost of social-oriented state (conclusion) (2013) (0)
- John A.James and MarkThomas, eds, Capitalism in context: essays on economic development and cultural change in honor of RM. Hartwell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. x + 355. Hb. $US31.00; £24.75.) (1996) (0)
- 6. Individual Reputations (with Samuel Bjork) (2016) (0)
- Sustainable Well-Being in Israel (2021) (0)
- Choice: Myopic and Rational (2007) (0)
- The Riksbank Endows a Nobel Prize (2019) (0)
- Analytic Narratives. By Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry R. Weingast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 249. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper. (2000) (0)
- Time series citation data: the Nobel Prize in economics (2013) (0)
- The Real Crisis: Not Work Incentives but Runaway Credit (2016) (0)
- Consumption in the Age of Affluence: The World of Food. By Ben Fine, Michael Heasman and Judith Wright. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. x, 305. $75.00, cloth; $22.00, paper (1998) (0)
- Passions and Interests: Self-Control and Well-Being (2007) (0)
- Kings of the road (1997) (0)
- The rise of the leisure painter: artistic creativity within the experience of ordinary life in postwar Britain, c. 1945-2000 (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews : Dueling: The Cult of Honor in fin-de-siecle Germany. By Kevin McAleer. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1994. xiii + 268 pp. 19.95 (1996) (0)
- Cognitive aging and the incidence of cardiovascular events and diabetes: a meta-analysis of the HPS, SEARCH and HPS2-THRIVE studies (2015) (0)
- Barbed wire: an ecology of modernity – By Reviel Netz (2007) (0)
- Models into Policy: Assar Lindbeck and Swedish Social Democracy (2016) (0)
- All You Need is Love? Mating since the 1950s (2007) (0)
- Weight loss in a cardiovascular trial population identifies people at future risk of dementia (2022) (0)
- 4. The Riksbank Endows a Nobel Prize (2016) (0)
- Does Economics have a Political Bias? (2016) (0)
- Driving Prudently: American and European (2007) (0)
- Affluence and the Pursuit of Status (2007) (0)
- The moral consequences of economic growth – By Benjamin M. Friedman (2008) (0)
- General and Miscellaneous (2000) (0)
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