The Ellen McArthur Lectures 1968 - 2022
The 2022 Ellen McArthur lectures were delivered in March by Dr Bob Allen of New York University Abu Dhabi.
From Foraging to the First States: an Economic History
Dr Bob Allen of New York University Abu Dhabi
Previous lecture series are listed below:
2018: Professor Avner Offer (Oxford) Time horizons as boundaries for market, public and social enterprise.
Lecture 1
Time horizons as market boundaries in private, public and social enterprise
Lecture 2
Impatient and patient capital: housing and democracy
Lecture 3
Safeguarding the future: families, education, and contract
Lecture 4
Credit time horizons as ethical boundaries
2016: Jane Humphries (All Souls College Oxford) Gendering Economic History
Lecture 1
Women, Work and Wages: from the Black Death to the Industrial Revolution
Lecture 2: The spinster: a tragic heroine of the Industrial Revolution?
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2013: Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast) The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the 13th and 14th centuries |
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2009: Nick Crafts (University of Warwick) From the 18th to the 21st Century: a perspective on 250 years of economic growth |
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2006: Kenneth Pomeranz (University of California Irvine) Economic Legacies of Agrarian Empire: Chinese Economic Development and Comparative History |
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2003: Charles Feinstein (All Souls College Oxford) An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development. |
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2000: Jan de Vries (University of California Berkeley) The Family and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth century |
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1996: Robert W. Fogel (University of Chicago) The Escape from Hunger and Premature death 1700-2000 |
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1992: Asa Briggs (Worcester College Oxford and the Open University) Commerce and Culture: the publishing business in Britain |
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1989: Herman van der Wee (University of Louvain) Economic and Social development before the Industrial Revolution: The Low Countries, 1000-1750 |
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1987: Tony Wrigley (London School of Economics) Continuity, Chance and Change: the Character of the Industrial Revolution in England |
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1984: Ivan Berend (Karl Marx University, Budapest), Modernisation in east central Europe: Economics, Ideology, Politics and Art in the first half of the Twentieth century |
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1983: François Crouzet (University of Paris-Sorbonne) Origins and Enterprise: the leaders of British Industrialisation |
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1981: Alan S. Milward (University of Manchester), Recovery and Reconstruction in Western Europe after World War II |
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1979: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (College de France) Peasants, taxes and agriculture in Europe, 1300-1800 |
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1977: Samuel Berrick Saul (University of Edinburgh) The New Deal in Action |
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1975: Carlo Cipolla (University of California Berkeley) Microbes, Merchants and Health Officers in early modern times |
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1972: Eric Hobsbawm (Birkbeck College London) The Formation of the Industrial Working Classes |
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1970: Edward Miller (Sheffield) Economic Changes in Medieval England |
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1968: Alexander Gerschenkron (Harvard) Europe in the Russian Mirror |