Tim Leunig
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British economist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Timothy Charles Leunig is an economist at the London School of Economics's Department of Economic History. After a long career as a Special Advisor, he became a Director at the economic consultants Public First.
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Published Works
- Path dependence and the quest for historical economics : one more chorus of the ballad of QWERTY (1997) (101)
- Time is Money: A Re-Assessment of the Passenger Social Savings from Victorian British Railways (2006) (91)
- Did smallpox reduce height? Stature and the standard of living in (1996) (82)
- Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 (1996) (59)
- Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? (2009) (56)
- Networks in the Premodern Economy: The Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600–1749 (2009) (52)
- Were British Railway Companies Well Managed in the Early Twentieth Century? (2008) (46)
- Social Savings (2010) (44)
- NEW ANSWERS TO OLD QUESTIONS: EXPLAINING THE SLOW ADOPTION OF RING SPINNING IN LANCASHIRE, 1880–l913 (2001) (43)
- Unlocking growth in cities (2011) (34)
- A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago (2003) (33)
- Robert Millward. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 (2007) (33)
- New Answers to Old Questions: Transport Costs and the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire (1998) (29)
- Spatial patterns of development and the British housing market (2008) (28)
- EDUCATIONAL DISPARITY IN EAST AND WEST PAKISTAN , 1947 – 71 : WAS EAST PAKISTAN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST ? (2006) (19)
- Measuring economic performance and social progress (2011) (18)
- Gender, Productivity, and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth‐Century Tobacco Industry (2014) (15)
- Smallpox really did reduce height: a reply to Razzell (2001) (13)
- Smallpox did reduce height : a reply to our critics (1998) (12)
- Comment on Seat of Death and Terror (2006) (12)
- Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago (2003) (11)
- Did smallpox reduce height? A final comment. (2001) (11)
- The Location of the British Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: a Quantitative Analysis (2012) (8)
- Height and the high life: what future for a tall story? (2001) (7)
- Spinning Welfare: The Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production (2011) (7)
- The People and the British Economy, 1830–1914 . By Roderick Floud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 218. $15.95, paper. (1998) (6)
- The impact of Government policies on UK manufacturing since 1945 (2013) (6)
- Selling English cottons into the world market : implications for the rationalisation debate, 1900-1939 (2009) (5)
- Cart or Horse: Transport and Economic Growth (2011) (5)
- Turning NIMBYs into IMBYs (2004) (4)
- Corrigendum: Were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century? (2011) (4)
- Understanding the English economy 1381–1869: editor's introduction (2013) (3)
- The Myth of the Corporate Economy: Great Britain's Cotton Textile Industry, 1900-1913 (1996) (3)
- Housing is expensive in Britain. This is because we have built too few houses for the number of new households – land auctions will help give us the homes we need (2011) (3)
- Can Role Models Help Encourage Young People to Apply to (Selective) Universities: Evidence From a Large Scale English Field Experiment (2018) (3)
- Economic History and the Policymaker (2018) (3)
- Success and the city (2008) (3)
- Gibrat's Law and the British Industrial Revolution (2013) (2)
- Surprisingly gentle confinement: British treatment of Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war during the napoleonic wars (2018) (2)
- Where To Build Britain's New Houses (2008) (1)
- Cotton industry: technological change (2003) (1)
- How bad were British prison hulks in the Napoleonic wars?: Evidence from captured Danish and Norwegian seamen (2016) (1)
- The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History Since 1700. Edited by Mary Rose. Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1996. Pp. xii, 404. £24.95, cloth; £14.95, paper (1997) (1)
- Positive Feedback in Collective Mobilization: the American Strike Wave of 1886 Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History (1)
- Mastering postgraduate funding (2011) (1)
- The Liberal Democrats and Supply‐Side Economics (2012) (1)
- Post-Second World War British railways: the unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention (2010) (1)
- Transport improvements, agglomeration economies and city productivity : From when did transport improvements raise British wages? (2008) (1)
- Britannia ruled the waves (2001) (1)
- Conditional discharges for looters that come forward would be a first step towards community reconciliation in the wake of the recent riots (2011) (0)
- With one in seven shops now lying empty, high street retail must go where the money is in order to survive (2012) (0)
- PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: (2002) (0)
- Sexism at work (2012) (0)
- The Higher Education White Paper is a good start at introducing real competition between universities for academic places (2011) (0)
- It’s official: waivers and bursaries don’t attract students (2012) (0)
- Location matters: putting people first in planning (2011) (0)
- Without a greater focus on education, the government’s strategy of transferring more power to cities may struggle to deliver growth (2011) (0)
- History tells us that we can get out of the current economic slump if government guarantees low interest rates, rising prices, and provides a more sensible planning system (2011) (0)
- All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not (2011) (0)
- The News International phone-hacking saga threatens to retoxify the Tory brand. Cameron needs to be ruthless to save his reputation (2011) (0)
- The proposed benefit cap for those out of work means that government expects people to live on 62p per day (2012) (0)
- Water companies should incentivise businesses to use less water and charge households that use high amounts more per unit (2012) (0)
- Political pressure may encourage ‘responsible capitalism’ in the short term. But more competition and higher educational standards are needed in the long term (2012) (0)
- Third debate – economic affairs: what our experts said (2010) (0)
- The right to strike is an important one, but the public and private sectors should be treated equally: government should ensure that when unions ballot members simultaneously, ballots are counted separately by employers (2011) (0)
- National Insurance is complex and pointless and should be merged with income tax (2011) (0)
- The Office of Fair Access has failed: university fees have been allowed to rise too high and are disproportionate to graduate incomes (2011) (0)
- David Cameron’s housing benefit proposal is nothing but a gimmick. Building more houses is a better way to cut the housing benefit bill (2012) (0)
- The government’s planned National Planning Policy Framework is a step in the right direction, but policy makers must ensure they get the incentives right, and that decisions are made locally (2011) (0)
- The rise in global gas prices is being passed on disproportionately to the poor by utility companies (2011) (0)
- Piece-rates and prosperity: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry (2009) (0)
- The government’s proposed cap on benefits is based upon a questionable grasp of how the benefits system actually works, and would exacerbate difficulties for poor, out of work families. (2011) (0)
- Robert Millward. Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xix + 351 pp. ISBN 0521835240, $90.00 (cloth) (2007) (0)
- Eve of the election: reflections from election experts (2010) (0)
- Works Title Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in Urban Economies : Evidence from British Cities after the US Civil War Permalink (2016) (0)
- More than 1 in 3 Welsh graduates leave Wales to work. The importance of universities is massively increased if graduates stay in the area (2012) (0)
- Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) (2010) (0)
- Budget 2011: Fiscally neutral, and some ‘radical’ planning changes, but the devil is definitely in the detail (2011) (0)
- In brief: Train times (2009) (0)
- Elsevier have a right to price their journals as they see fit, but they must be honest in their reasoning and not attack boycotters with untruths (2012) (0)
- Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain’s continued preference for mule spinning? (2002) (0)
- We need to invest much more in our schools. A better educated Britain is better for employers and for improving social mobility. (2011) (0)
- With the budget on the horizon, the government should take the opportunity to create a fairer and more equal tax system for pensioners (2012) (0)
- Post‐Second World War British Railways (2010) (0)
- Hard choices in UK public policy – railways (2010) (0)
- LSE election experts reflect on the election result (2010) (0)
- The ‘emergency’ budget – solving the UK’s problems?: or creating the basis for new crises? (2010) (0)
- Without a rise in German wages, 2012 may see the beginning of the breakup of the Eurozone (2012) (0)
- George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review has yielded few surprises (2011) (0)
- While Cameron’s vision is seriously constrained by the economy, his government’s advantage is that the alternative is still tainted by the past (2011) (0)
- in Economic and Social History Number 48 , September 2002 DOES INDUSTRIALISATION PUSH UP INEQUALITY ? NEW EVIDENCE ON THE KUZNETS CURVE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRUSSIAN TAX STATISTICS (2002) (0)
- How to cut the cost of railways and keep fares down (2012) (0)
- Do We Need a New Economic Paradigm (2011) (0)
- The decline of manufacturing and its regional consequences in UK (2010) (0)
- Only competitive tension will keep student fees down – it is time to quit the quotas (2011) (0)
- In brief...Cotton and Cars: the Huge Gains from Process Innovation (2011) (0)
- The Prothictivity Race: BritishManifacturingin International Perspective, 1850–1990. By S. N. Broadberry. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 451. £45.00, $74.95 (1999) (0)
- Abolishing quotas for students with high A level grades will not drive down university fees (2011) (0)
- We need hundreds of thousands of new homes in Britain. But in its present form, the government’s proposed new planning framework is not likely to deliver them (2011) (0)
- This was a Tory budget from a Tory Chancellor (2012) (0)
- Reporting dismal times (guest blog) (2012) (0)
- When planning for new housing developments, we must make sure they are built where people actually want to live (2011) (0)
- Poor pupil performance is more about poverty than school quality. We must ensure our schools work for poor children in all places (2011) (0)
- Labour’s proposed tuition fees cap does not change the fact that most graduates will never earn enough to repay their loans (2011) (0)
- Growth figures show that Britain is essentially going backwards. Bringing forward the £10,000 tax allowance is the best option to encourage growth (2011) (0)
- The TaxPayers’ Alliance and Institute of Directors have just produced a new report on the British Tax System. Some parts are good, some are plain silly (2012) (0)
- Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 (review) (2007) (0)
- Comment on Oxley’s "Seat of death and terror" (2006) (0)
- Budget 2011: The new flat rate pension will reduce poverty among the retired, but employers who offer good pensions may be penalised financially as a result (2011) (0)
- What "FOREVER 21" means to spatial economists (2011) (0)
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