Patrick K. O'Brien

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According to Wikipedia, Patrick Karl O'Brien is a British historian who serves as professor emeritus of global economic history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received a DPhil from Nuffield College in 1960 for a thesis entitled Government Revenue, 1793–1815: A Study of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Wars Against France .

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The political economy of British taxation, 1660-1815 (1988) (299)
European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery* (1982) (189)
Historiographical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history (2006) (169)
Taxation in Britain and France, 1715-1810. A comparison of the Social and Economic Incidence of Taxes Collected for the Central Governments. (1976) (155)
The Nature and Historical Evolution of an Exceptional Fiscal State and its Possible Significance for the Precocious Commercialization and Industrialization of the British Economy from Cromwell to Nelson (2011) (132)
Fiscal exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European rivals: from civil war to triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo (2001) (122)
THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 1846–1914 (1988) (119)
Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system: Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens (1991) (112)
British births, 1970. (1976) (102)
Economic growth in Britain and France, 1780-1914 (2012) (101)
Political components of the industrial revolution: Parliament and the English cotton textile industry, 1660‐1774 (1991) (94)
Agricultural productivity and european industrialization, 1890-1980 (1992) (80)
The Governance of Globalization: The Political Economy of Anglo-American Hegemony, 1793-2003 (2003) (77)
Agriculture and the home market for English industry, 1660—1820 (1985) (76)
The industrial revolution and British society (1993) (76)
The rise of fiscal states: a global history, 1500-1914 (2012) (72)
The Costs and Benefits for Europeans from their Empires Overseas (1998) (71)
Hegemony or Empire (2003) (66)
Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800 (1992) (65)
Path dependency, or why Britain became an industrialized and urbanized economy long before France (1996) (65)
Railways And The Economic Development Of Western Europe, 1830 1914 (1983) (62)
Mercantilism and Imperialism in the Rise and Decline of the Dutch and British Economies 1585-1815 (2000) (59)
Intercontinental Trade and the Development of the Third World since the Industrial Revolution (2005) (51)
Economic Development in Iran 1900-1970. (1971) (46)
The New Economic History of the Railways (1977) (43)
Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914. Two Paths to the Twentieth Century. (1979) (42)
Fiscal and Financial Preconditions for the Rise of British Naval Hegemony 1485-1815 (2005) (41)
The political economy of British historical experience, 1688-1914 (2002) (41)
Transport and Economic Development in Europe, 1789–1914 (1983) (39)
Free trade, British hegemony and the international economic order in the nineteenth century (1992) (39)
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688–1815 (2004) (38)
Current concepts. Headache. (1980) (37)
Theories of Technological Progress and the British Textile Industry from Kay to Cartwright (1996) (37)
Inseperable connexions: trade economy, fiscal state and the expansion of empire, 1688-1815 (1998) (37)
The Industrial Revolution and British society: Political preconditions for the Industrial Revolution (1993) (34)
Dietary shifts and implications for US agriculture. (1995) (32)
The revolution in Egypt's economic system (1966) (32)
Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 : Two Paths to the Twentieth Century (2011) (32)
The Britishness of the first industrial revolution and the British contribution to the industrialization of ‘follower countries’ on the mainland, 1756–1914 (1997) (26)
Public Finance in the Wars with France 1793–1815 (1989) (25)
Scottish, Irish, and Imperial Connections: Parliament, the Three Kingdoms, and the Mechanization of Cotton Spinning in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2008) (24)
The Foundations of European Industrialization: From the Perspective of the World* (1991) (23)
Imperialism and the rise and decline of the British economy, 1688-1989 (1999) (23)
The curious history and imminent demise of the challenge and response model (1998) (23)
From family firms to corporate capitalism : essays in business and industrial history (1998) (22)
Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a western European regime for the discovery, development, and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge* (2013) (20)
The Woman Destroyed (1969) (20)
The Industrial Revolution and British society: Introduction: Modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution (1993) (18)
The contributions of warfare with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France to the consolidation and progress of the British industrial revolution (2017) (18)
Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the Regime Shift to Paper Money, 1797-1821 (2016) (18)
Balance Sheets for the Acquisition, Retention and Loss of European Empires Overseas (1999) (18)
The industrial revolution in global perspective (2004) (18)
There Is Nothing Outside the Text, and There Is No Safety in Numbers: A Reply to Sullivan (1995) (17)
Mercantilist institutions for the pursuit of power with profit. The management of Britain’s national debt, 1756-1815 (2006) (17)
Provincializing the First Industrial Revolution (2006) (16)
The Industrial Revolution and British Society. (1994) (16)
The Oxford Atlas of World History (2003) (15)
Atlas of world history (1999) (15)
Review Article: Metanarratives in Global Histories of Material Progress (2001) (15)
The Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reconfiguration of the British Industrial Revolution as a Conjuncture in Global History* (2000) (15)
Contentions of the Purse between England and its European Rivals from Henry V to George IV: A Conversation with Michael Mann (2006) (14)
Establishing Statistical Foundations of a Chronology for the Great Divergence: A Survey and Critique of the Primary Sources for the Construction of Relative Wage Levels for Ming–Qing China (2016) (14)
Colonies in a globalizing economy 1815-1948 (2004) (14)
Government revenue, 1793-1815 : a study in fiscal and financial policy in the wars against France (1967) (13)
The Revolution in Egypt's Economic System: From Private Enterprise to Socialism, 1952-1965 (1967) (13)
The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815 (2007) (12)
The economic effects of the American Civil War (1988) (11)
Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780-1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century. (1979) (10)
The costs and benefits of mercantilist warfare (2018) (10)
Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution (1977) (10)
Finances and power in the German state system (2012) (9)
The Industrial Revolution in Europe (1994) (9)
China’s GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times (2016) (9)
Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797–1821 (2020) (8)
Parenteral vitamin therapy in alcoholism (1995) (8)
Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: analyses, perceptions and conceptions of Britain’s precocious transition to Europe’s first industrial society (2004) (8)
European industrialisation from the voyages of discovery to the industrial revolution (1990) (8)
Fiscal and Financial Preconditions for the Formation of Developmental States in the West and the East from the Conquest of Ceuta (1415) to the Opium War (1839) (2012) (8)
British incomes and property in the early nineteenth century (1959) (8)
The deconstruction of myths and reconstruction of metanarratives in global histories of material progress (2003) (8)
Can the debate on the Great Divergence be located within the Kuznetsian paradigm for an empirical form of global economic history (2015) (7)
BRITAIN’S ECONOMY BETWEEN THE WARS: A SURVEY OF A COUNTERREVOLUTION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY* (1987) (7)
Total factor productivity for the Royal Navy from victory at Texal (1653) to triumph at Trafalgar (1805) (2010) (7)
Was the first industrial revolution a conjuncture in the history of the world economy (2017) (6)
Long-term trends in the fiscal history of the Netherlands, 1515-1913 (2012) (6)
A conjuncture in global history or an Anglo-American construct: the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1850 (2010) (6)
The Future Is Another Country: Offshore Views of the British Industrial Revolution1 (2009) (6)
Finance and Taxation (2007) (6)
The formation of states and transitions to modern economies (2014) (6)
Political Biography: A Polemical Review of the Genre (2010) (6)
English and French landowners 1688-1789 (1994) (6)
Global Economic History as the Accumulation of Capital Through a Process of Combined and Uneven Development: An Appreciation and Critique of Ernest Mandel (2007) (6)
Industrialization, Typologies and History of (2001) (5)
The Early Modern Atlantic Economy: Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793–1815 (2000) (5)
The New Economic History of the Railways. (1978) (5)
Global Warfare and Long-Term Economic Development, 1789-1939 (1996) (5)
The history, nature and economic significance of an exceptional fiscal state for the growth of the British economy, 1453-1815 (2008) (5)
The Formation of a Mercantilist State and the Economic Growth of the United Kingdom 1453-1815 (2006) (5)
Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840 (2014) (5)
Fiscal, financial and monetary foundations for the formation of nation states in the west compared to imperial states in the east c.1415–c.1839 (2013) (4)
Not an Ordinary Bank But a Great Engine of State: The Bank of England and the British Economy, 1694-1844 (2020) (4)
Exports and the growth of the British economy, 1688-1802 (1991) (4)
Is political biography a good thing (1996) (4)
'Creative Destruction': Chinese GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to Modern Times (2014) (4)
The security of the realm and the growth of the economy, 1688-1914 (1997) (4)
Historical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history (2006) (3)
Nation, State, and the Economy in History: Political structures and grand strategies for the growth of the British economy, 1688–1815 (2003) (3)
The Rise of Fiscal States: Afterword (2012) (3)
The analysis and measurement of the service economy in European economic history (1983) (3)
Income distribution in the industrial revolution (1981) (3)
Quantifying the Quantifiable (2017) (3)
The Global Economic History of European Expansion Overseas (2005) (3)
Historical Conditions for the Evolution of a Successful Fiscal State : Great Britain and Its European Rivals from the Treaty of Munster to the Treaty of Vienna (2008) (3)
The Northern Economy (1988) (3)
Edith Penrose, 1914–1996:in memoriam (1997) (2)
Afterword: The shock, achievements and disappointments of the new (2008) (2)
The Industrial Revolution and British society: Preface (1993) (2)
The analysis of quotas and specific duties in international trade (1970) (2)
The Industrialization of Egypt, 1939-73: Policy and Performance. (1978) (2)
Cosmographies for the discovery, development and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge in pre-industrial Europe and Late imperial China: a survey and speculation (2018) (2)
The Divergence Debate: Europe and China 1368–1846 (2010) (2)
European Economic Development: A Reply (1983) (2)
Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China (2015) (2)
Political Biography and Pitt the Younger as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1998) (2)
How Well Did Facts Travel to Support Protracted Debate on the History of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China (2017) (2)
The Rise of Fiscal States: South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean (2012) (2)
Taxation for British mercantilism from the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) (2009) (2)
The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth (1)
Economic Analysis and the Shaping of Public Policy: A 1995 Farm Bill Perspective (1996) (1)
Final Considerations: Aristocracies and Economic Progress under the Ancien RéGime (2017) (1)
Financing an empire (2012) (1)
Agriculture in Britain and France, 1815-1914. (1977) (1)
Did Capitalism Breed Inequality?, Jeffrey G. Williamson. Allen and Unwin, London (1985), ix, +270. £20.00 (1987) (1)
Industrialisation, trade policies and economic growth (1) (1972) (1)
Judges and Politics: The Parliamentary Contributions of the Law Lords 1876–2009 (2016) (1)
Why Maddison was Wrong (2017) (1)
The Tyranny of Numbers: Are There Acceptable Data for Nominal and Real Wages for Pre-modern China? (2018) (1)
The precocious mechanization of a global industry: English cotton textile production from the Flying Shuttle (1733) to the self-acting mule (1825): a bibliographical survey and critique (2019) (1)
Making the Modern World Economy (2002) (1)
A critical analysis of devolution and the corporate reform of teachers' work (1999) (1)
A Global Perspective on Industrialization : A Bibliographical Survey (1998) (1)
The right of workers to share in ownership, management, and profits (2012) (1)
:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History.Foreword by William H. McNeill. (The California World History Library, number 2.) (2005) (1)
Northern Iron, Southern Comfort (1989) (0)
In thanksgiving to pioneers (1985) (0)
Taxation for British Mercantilism fron the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713 to the Peace of Paris , 1783 (2007) (0)
6-35 Well Pad and Access - Grynberg Petroleum (1993) (0)
Balcony of the World (2010) (0)
The revolution in Egypt’s economic system: from private to socialism, 1952-1965 (1966) (0)
The East Asian Journal of British History: Special Issue - Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians 2015 Changing Networks and Power in British History: Politics, Society, Trade, vol. 5 (2016) (0)
Historiographical Context and Bibliographical Guide (2020) (0)
Associate Professor George Amigo 1921–2006 (2007) (0)
Global history: interactions between the universal and the local - Edited by Anthony G. Hopkins (2008) (0)
Taxation: 1688-1914 (1997) (0)
Merry Christmas,Mr.Dershowitz:Or,Jacob Reconsiders Esau (1999) (0)
Conoco Missouri Creek Unit 28-1 Pipeline - Williams Field Services (1993) (0)
Aristocracies and European progress under the ancien regime (2005) (0)
The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe (2020) (0)
Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in the Growth of Western Industrial Market Economies〔含英語原文〕 (2004) (0)
Jeff Flynn-Paul, ed., War, entrepreneurs and the state in Europe and the Mediterranean 1300–1800 ( Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xii + 356. 4 figs. 9 tabs. ISBN 9789004243644 Hbk. €168) (2015) (0)
16 The industrial revolution in global perspective (2017) (0)
Cultures for Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship for the Rise of the West (2006) (0)
Book Review: Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the Fifteenth Century Onward (2004) (0)
Structural changes in the Egyptian economy, 1937-1965 (1970) (0)
Conoco Southwest Rangely #25-1 Pipeline - Williams Field Services (1993) (0)
How Dr Blewett Blew (1978) (0)
SinoCentred Reciprocal Comparisons of Europe’s and China’s: Economic Growth 1650–1850 (2020) (0)
Cathode - Deep Well Anode Sites - Monitoring (1991) (0)
Civil War, Emancipation and the Southern Economy: Some Conclusions (1988) (0)
Book Review The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research. Derek Freeman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999 (1999) (0)
Lifting the Silence (2006) (0)
Aristocratic government and the British economy, 1688-1914 (2001) (0)
A. Gonzalez Enciso, War, power and the economy: mercantilism and state formation in 18th-century Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii+284 11 figs. 38 tabs. ISBN 9781138855694 Hbk. £110) (2018) (0)
SO FAR, SO BAD (1963) (0)
Reviews of Books and FilmsReviews of Books and FilmsMethods/Theory (2005) (0)
The French Wars (1793–1815) and Capital Formation during the Industrial Revolution (1992) (0)
The economics of European expansion overseas (2005) (0)
The Real World (2009) (0)
Direct Costs and Economic Causes of the Civil War (1988) (0)
Fresh Silo Polish, Serf! (1990) (0)
Cliques and claques (1993) (0)
Postscript: An Appreciation of Max Hartwell (1993) (0)
Myths of hegemony (2003) (0)
Hegemony as an Anglo-American Succession, 1815-2004 (2005) (0)
Medical audit in a lithium clinic (1991) (0)
Soldier Canyon #8-26 Pipeline - Williams Field Services For Aa Production (1993) (0)
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the mechanization of cotton textile production in Englad 1733-85 (2000) (0)
The Long-run Costs of Civil War for the South (1988) (0)
Constitutional Systems of the World: Problems of Perspective in Comparative Constitutionalism (2012) (0)
Phase II Archaeological Investigations at Sites 33 De 272 and 273, Defiance County, Ohio (1998) (0)
Global History: Universal and World (2001) (0)
Contrasting Cosmographies for the Development of Science in Pre-Industrial Europe and Late Imperial China (2021) (0)
Europe and the world economy, 1492-1789 (1984) (0)
Was the British industrial revolution a conjuncture in global economic history? (2021) (0)
5Mf.1124: Report On Archaeological Data Recovery (1993) (0)
A Market Context for the 1990 Farm Bill Debate (1990) (0)
Substance use and dependency (2011) (0)
Cosmographies for the Discovery, Development and Diffusion of Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China (2020) (0)
An economic appraisal of the Egyptian revolution (1964) (0)
5-35 Well Pad - Grynberg Petroleum (1993) (0)
Statistical Bases for a Chronology of Economic Divergence Between Imperial China and Western Europe, 1636–1839 (2020) (0)
Civil War and the American Economy: Conclusions (1988) (0)
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India and America c. 1750–1783 . By P. J. Marshall. Oxford University Press, 2005. pp. 398. ISBN 10: 0199226660; 13: 978-0199226665. (2008) (0)
Correction to: The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe (2021) (0)
Long-run Costs of War (1988) (0)
Philips world history encyclopaedia (2000) (0)
Aspen Skiing Co. - Aspen Highlands Ski Area (1994) (0)
Some taxonomic reflextions on technical progress in western Europe, 1750-1850 (1991) (0)
Scottish, Irish and imperial connexions: parliament and the three kingdoms and the mechanization of the cotton pinning in eighteenth century Britain (2008) (0)
Encyclopedia of World History (2000) (0)
In Memoriam: Stephan (Larry) Epstein (2007) (0)
Little Red Sled (2010) (0)
The Ming and Qing Imperial States and Their Agrarian Economies (2020) (0)
The governance of the British economy from mercantilism to liberal imperialism (2008) (0)
The Mutiny on the Bounty (2007) (0)

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