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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Leslie Hannah, is a British economic historian and academic, specialising in business history. During his academic career, he was most closely associated with the London School of Economics. His work focuses on the development of corporations, pensions and banking.
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Published Works
- The Rise of the Corporate Economy. (1980) (326)
- Concentration in modern industry (1977) (155)
- Concentration in modern industry : theory, measurement and the U.K. experience (1978) (146)
- The ‘Divorce’ of ownership from control from 1900 onwards: Re-calibrating imagined global trends (2007) (146)
- Inventing Retirement: The Development of Occupational Pensions in Britain (1987) (144)
- Electricity Before Nationalisation. A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. (1979) (102)
- Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690-1996 (2001) (101)
- Takeover Bids in Britain Before 1950: An Exercise in Business ‘Pre-History’ (1974) (85)
- Extreme Divorce: The Managerial Revolution in UK Companies Before 1914 (2011) (83)
- MERGERS IN BRITISH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, 1880–1918 (1974) (74)
- Pioneering Modern Corporate Governance: A View from London in 1900 (2007) (62)
- Marshall's "Trees" and the Global "Forest": Were "Giant Redwoods" Different? (1997) (62)
- Electricity Before Nationalisation (1979) (61)
- Scale and Scope: Towards a European Visible Hand? (1991) (46)
- Management Strategy and Business Development (1976) (45)
- The Divorce of Ownership from Control from 1900: Re-calibrating Imagined Global Historical Trends (2007) (44)
- Human Capital[1] (1987) (41)
- Engineers, Managers, and Politicians: The First Fifteen Years of Nationalised Electricity Supply in Britain (1982) (41)
- Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control (2013) (35)
- Managerial Innovation and the Rise of the Large-Scale Company in Interwar Britain (1974) (35)
- The Whig Fable of American Tobacco, 1895–1913 (2006) (33)
- A Global Corporate Census: Publicly Traded and Close Companies in 1910 (2015) (32)
- The rise of the corporate economy : the British experience (1977) (32)
- Engineers, managers, and politicians (1982) (27)
- Logistics, Market Size, and Giant Plants in the Early Twentieth Century: A Global View (2008) (23)
- New Issues in British Business History (1983) (22)
- Entrepreneurs and the Social Sciences (1984) (21)
- Corporations in the US and Europe 1790–1860 (2014) (19)
- Survival and Size Mobility among the World's Largest 100 Industrial Corporations, 1912-1995 (1998) (17)
- The London Stock Exchange, 1869–1929: New Statistics for Old? (2018) (17)
- A failed experiment: the state ownership of industry (2004) (16)
- Mergers and Economic Performance. (1981) (16)
- Management strategy and business development: An historical and comparative study (1976) (16)
- Electricity before Nationalization: A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. (1979) (15)
- Strategic Games, Scale, and Efficiency, or Chandler goes to Hollywood (2009) (15)
- The Measurement of Concentration (1977) (14)
- FROM FAMILY FIRM TO PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT: STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (1983) (13)
- UK corporate law and corporate governance before 1914: a re-interpretation (2015) (13)
- Mergers, Cartels and Concentration: Legal Factors in the U. S. and European Experience (1979) (12)
- The Contribution of Mergers to Concentration Growth: A Reply to Professor Hart [On Bias and Concentration] (1981) (11)
- Electricity before Nationalisation: A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948 (1980) (11)
- J. P. Morgan in London and New York before 1914 (2011) (11)
- What did Morgan's Men really do? (2007) (11)
- The Diffusion and Impact of the Corporation in 1910 (2015) (11)
- Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms: Japan in Comparative Perspective (2015) (9)
- Long-term Supply-Side Implications of the Great Depression and 1930s Micro-economic Policies: Anglo- American Reflections (2010) (7)
- "Rethinking Corporate Finance Fables: Did the US Lag Europe before 1914?" (2015) (7)
- The Shareholders’ ‘Dog’ that did not Bark: Contested Takeover Bids in Long-Run Comparative Perspective (2011) (7)
- Ownership dispersion and listing rules in companies large and small: A reply (2014) (6)
- Strategy and Structure in the Manufacturing Sector (1976) (6)
- The Moral Economy of Business: A Historical Perspective on Ethics and Efficiency (2000) (5)
- Why Employer-based Pension Plans? The Case of Britain (1985) (5)
- A Global Census of Corporations in 1910 (2013) (5)
- London as the Global Market for Corporate Securities before 1914 (2011) (5)
- Introduction: Business Development and Economic Structure in Britain since 1880 (1976) (5)
- The Logistic Revolution: The Rise of Logistics in a Mass Consumption Society (2014) (5)
- Inventing retirement: Designing the benefit structure (1986) (5)
- The business history discipline (2017) (4)
- Corporate governance, accounting transparency and stock exchange sizes in Germany, Japan and «Anglo-Saxon» economies, 1870–1950 (2019) (4)
- The Contribution of Mergers to Industrial Concentration: A Reply to Professor Prais [The Contribution of Mergers to Concentration Growth] (1981) (4)
- German Yearbook on Business History 1981 (1981) (4)
- The London Stock Exchange 1869-1929: new bloody statistics for old? (2017) (4)
- British industry between the wars : instability and industrial development 1919-1939 (1981) (4)
- Memoirs of a Socialist Businessman. (1981) (3)
- The political economy of mergers in manufacturing industry in Britain between the Wars (1972) (3)
- American Business History: A British Perspective (1981) (3)
- THE ORIGINS, CHARACTERISTICS AND RESILIENCE OF THE “ANGLO-AMERICAN” CORPORATE MODEL (2015) (3)
- Pension asset management : an international perspective (1988) (2)
- Entrepreneurs and the social sciences : an inaugural lecture (1983) (2)
- Occupational Pension Funds: Getting the Long-Run Answers Right (1986) (2)
- Board of Trade: Survey of International Cartels, 1944 and Survey of Internal Cartels, 1946. (1977) (2)
- Courtaulds: An Economic and Social History, Vol. 3, Crisis and Change 1940-65. (1980) (2)
- Downs and ups (1999) (2)
- Public Policy and the Advent of Large-Scale Technology: The Case of Electricity Supply in the U.S.A., Germany and Britain (1979) (2)
- British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis (2022) (2)
- The Rise of the Modern Firm (2014) (2)
- Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control (2014) (2)
- Logistics, Market Size and Giant Plants in the Early 20th Century : A Global View (2007) (2)
- Concentration and Public Policy (1977) (1)
- The power of corporate networks: a comparative and historical perspective (2016) (1)
- Some Consequences of the Early Twentieth Century Divorce of Ownership from Control (2012) (1)
- Concentration and Productivity: A Broader Perspective (2004) (1)
- The Corporate Economies of America and Europe 1790-1860 (2013) (1)
- Cultural Determinants of Economic Performance: An Experiment in Measuring Human Capital Flows (2019) (1)
- The New Men (1982) (1)
- Business: history and economics (2013) (1)
- The Strange Death of the British Motor Cycle Industry by Steve Koerner (review) (2014) (1)
- NanEnstad, Cigarettes, Inc. An intimate history of corporate imperialism (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. Pp. ix+333. 35 figs. ISBN 9780226533315 Pbk. $25) (2020) (1)
- Realising the potential of scale and scope ‐ a review article (1990) (1)
- Trust, Reputation and Regulation: Securities Markets in Europe, the USA, and Japan Before 1914 (2017) (1)
- The National Grid and the Reform of Power Generation (1979) (1)
- Concentration and Market Power (1977) (1)
- Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed . By Brian R. Cheffins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xviii + 423 pp. Figures, notes, index. Cloth, £60.00. ISBN: 978-0-199-23697-8. (2009) (1)
- Business History at LSE: An Empiricist Voice (2019) (1)
- Ownership: Evolution and Regulation We Have Received Helpful Comments From (2004) (1)
- Enterprise and Management: Essays in Honour of Peter L. Payne. Edited by Derek H. Aldcroft and Anthony Slaven. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1995. Pp. xviii, 311. $74.95 (1996) (1)
- Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850. By Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, and Taylor James. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv + 339 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-26187-4 (2013) (1)
- Human Capital Flows and Business Efficiency (2019) (1)
- Large-scale Victorian manufacturers: reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census (2021) (1)
- William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner and Mira Wilkins, Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, xxiv + 487 pp. US$80) (2009) (0)
- The insurance challenge (1927–56) (1986) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Savings, work and old age in Victorian Britain (1986) (0)
- Forest " : Were " Giant Redwoods " Different ? (1999) (0)
- Management Strategy and Business Development. (1977) (0)
- Labour Management under Public Ownership (1982) (0)
- The Diagnosis of Failure (1979) (0)
- Barry Eichengreen. Capital Flows and Crises. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. viii + 377 pp. ISBN 0-262-05067-6, $35.00 (2004) (0)
- Competition and professionalization: the maturing of the pension market (1956–79) (1986) (0)
- A Business History of Britain, 1900–1990. By David J. Jeremy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix, 610. $82.00 (2000) (0)
- The strongest sister (1994) (0)
- Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience ed. by Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino (review) (2021) (0)
- Ministers and Mandarins (1982) (0)
- R.C. MICHIE. Money, Mania and Markets: Investments, Company Formation and the Stock Exchange in Nineteenth Century Scotland. (Edinburgh: John Donald. 1981. Pp.ix+287. £18.00.) (1983) (0)
- Logistics, market size and giant industrial units in the early 20th century: a global view (2008) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Accident and design in the evolution of pensions (1986) (0)
- A Prosperous People (1988) (0)
- The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–60) (1982) (0)
- Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census (2021) (0)
- Hinton: The Nuclear Retreat (1982) (0)
- Capital Flows and Crises (review) (2004) (0)
- Ownership and Control in the Twentieth Century: Ambiguous Trends in Marriage and Divorce. (Revised Draft) (2006) (0)
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. ByKatharina Pistor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiii + 297 pp. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17897-4. (2019) (0)
- The state: partner or competitor? (1940–78) (1986) (0)
- John F.Wilson, Ian G.Jones, StevenToms, AnnaTilba, EmilyBuchnea, and NicholasWong, Business History: A Research Overview. London & New York: Routledge, 2022. pp. ix+ 137. ISBN 9781138326989 £35.99. (2022) (0)
- The Wounded Soldiers of Industry: Industrial Compensation Policy, 1833–1897. By P. W. J. Bartrip and S. B. Burman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi + 253 pp. $29.95.) (1985) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Rival pioneers of collectivism: pensions, the state and employers (1899–1927) (1986) (0)
- Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: the US Standard of Living since the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. (2019) (0)
- Commercial Development: Pricing for Growth (1982) (0)
- STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY FINDS THE LEAD (1999) (0)
- Saviour or slasher (1998) (0)
- Generation: Centralisation and Conservatism (1948–53) (1982) (0)
- War and Post-war Crisis (1979) (0)
- The History of British Steel. By John Vaizey. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. Pp. xvii + 205. £4.25 (1976) (0)
- The Social and Political Effects of Concentration (1977) (0)
- Two Distorting Mirrors for British Manufacturing Performance: International and Sectoral Comparisons (1996) (0)
- Charles W. Munn, Minister of money: Henry Duncan, founder of the savings bank movement (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2017. Pp. xvi+240. 2 maps. 12 plates. ISBN 9781910900147 Hbk. £25) (2018) (0)
- The Electricity Council: Federalism and Finance (1982) (0)
- The Unsung Activists: UK Shareholder Investigation Committees, 1888–1940 (2022) (0)
- British Banking: Continuity and Change from 1694 to the Present. By Ranald C. Michie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 334 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Cloth, $105.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-872736-1. (2017) (0)
- Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets. By Walter Mattli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. x + 248 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18066-3. (2020) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Retirement: age discrimination or the fruits of prosperity? (1986) (0)
- The Determinants and Effects of Mergers: An International Comparison. Edited by Dennis C. Mueller. Cambridge, Mass., Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980. Pp. xviii + 353. $27.50 (1981) (0)
- Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913 (2023) (0)
- Area Boards: Independence, Overexpansion and the New Rationality (1982) (0)
- Brave little creatures (2000) (0)
- Pioneers of Lighting and Power (1979) (0)
- The rise of the corporate economy: directions (2013) (0)
- The Gibrat Effect (1977) (0)
- Business Organisation in Great Britain, 1856–1914 . By James B. Jefferys. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 476. $32.00. (1979) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Notes (1986) (0)
- Richard Roberts and David Kynaston, The lion wakes: a modern history of HSBC ( London: Profile Books, 2015. Pp. xvi + 768. ISBN 9781781250556 Hbk. £30) (2015) (0)
- Managerial Capitalism and Corporate Governance (2021) (0)
- The Years of Indecision (1979) (0)
- The Growth of Industrial Relations (1979) (0)
- Retrospect: Citrine, Self and the Management of Change (1982) (0)
- The Electrification of the Home: the Golden Age? (1979) (0)
- Trust and Regulation in Corporate Capital Markets before 1914 (2018) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Statistical appendix (1986) (0)
- Meeting the Capacity Crisis (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Beardmore: The History of a Scottish Industrial Giant John R. Hume, Michael S. Moss (1981) (0)
- Charles A. Jones, International business in the nineteenth century: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan bourgeoisie. (Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1987. Pp. xii + 260. S34.95.) (1990) (0)
- Not bears of little brain (1998) (0)
- The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry. By Roy Church. Studies in Economic and Social History. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. x, 140. £5.99 (1995) (0)
- Estimates of GB firm-size by sector in 1881 using BBCE sector definitions (EA17 sector codes) (2021) (0)
- On Electrified Societies (1984) (0)
- The Road to Nationalisation (1979) (0)
- T. J. Pempel. Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xi + 263 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3532-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8014-8529-0, $17.95 (paper) (2000) (0)
- Dried milk to drugs (1993) (0)
- The CEGB in Practice (1982) (0)
- Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino, eds. Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 592 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-87197-3, $120.00 (cloth). (2020) (0)
- Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History . Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 249 pp. Tables, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. ISBN: cloth, 0-521-84061-9; paper, 0-521-54993-0. (2006) (0)
- Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays. Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Philip B. Scranton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. xix + 521 pp. Figures, illustrations, tables. Paper, $46.76. ISBN: 0-618-04426-4 (2007) (0)
- Anti-Business Culture And The Changing Business Establishment (1989) (0)
- Youssef Cassis, Capitals of Capital: a History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xiv + 385 pp. £25) (2008) (0)
- Generation: The Brown Revolution (1954–7) (1982) (0)
- The Recent Experience — 1957–76 (1977) (0)
- Reflections on Barclays’ History since 1996 (2014) (0)
- A note on sources (1986) (0)
- The Marriage of Ownership and Control: a Global Twentieth Century Story (2006) (0)
- System Expansion: The Area Boards (1982) (0)
- Coal, Oil and Nuclear Escalation (1982) (0)
- The Finance of British Industry, 1918-1976. By W.A. Thomas. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1979. Pp. x, 351. $37.50 (1980) (0)
- Commercial Expansion and the Power Load (1979) (0)
- We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature. (2002) (0)
- Half-Price Electricity? (1982) (0)
- William Lazonick and David J. Teece, eds., Management innovation: essays in the spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 378. 15 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9780199695683 Hbk. £55) (2013) (0)
- Book reviews: Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer, The fable of the Keiretsu: urban legends of the Japanese economy Yoshiro Miwa, State competence and economic growth in Japan (2008) (0)
- Epilogue: Contemporary critics and the future of pensions (1986) (0)
- Accounting for British Steel: A Financial Analysis of the Failure of the British Steel Corporation, 1967-80, and Who was to Blame.@@@Engineers, Managers, and Politicians: The First Fifteen Years of Nationalized Electricity Supply in Britain. (1983) (0)
- A Scottish Alternative? (1955–64) (1982) (0)
- Incomes and Productivity: Planning for Growth? (1982) (0)
- Large Firms in Modern Industry (1977) (0)
- Underlying Sources of Growth (2021) (0)
- Distribution: the Drift into Stalemate (1979) (0)
- Inventing retirement: Pensions in peril? Security, solvency and vesting (1986) (0)
- The Historical Trend — 1919–57 (1977) (0)
- Economic Planning and Politics in Britain. By Jacques Leruez. Translated by Martin Harrison. Preface by J. E. S. Hayward. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. xi, 324. $20.00 (1976) (0)
- Barclays at 325 : a brief history (2015) (0)
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