Robert Carson Allen (born 10 January 1947 in

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) is Professor of Economic History at

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. His research interests are

economic history Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and inst ...

, technological change and public policy and he has written extensively on English agricultural history. He has also studied international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of

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in the Eastern Arctic, and contemporary policies on education. He obtained his B.A. at Carleton College,

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in 1969 and his Ph.D. at

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in 1975. He has been a professor since 1973, first at

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then from 1975 in the Department of Economics of the

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. Since 2000 he has been associated with the

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, and from 2002 has been Professor of Economic History and a

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. Bob Allen retired from Oxford University in 2013. He is now Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He has been awarded the Ranki Prize of the

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for his 1992 and 2003 works (see below).

Books

* 1992: ''Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850'' * 2003: ''Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution'' * 2007: '' Engels' Pause: A Pessimist`s Guide to the British Industrial Revolution'', Economics Series Working Papers 315, University of Oxford, Department of Economics. * 2009: ''The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective'' * 2011: ''Global economic history: a very short introduction'' * 2017: ''The Industrial Revolution: a very short introduction''

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Robert C. Allen
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British historians Economic historians Living people 1947 births Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford Carleton College alumni Harvard University alumni Hamilton College (New York) faculty American emigrants to England Vancouver School of Economics faculty Presidents of the Economic History Association {{UK-historian-stub

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