Tim Leunig
Title and contact details
Reader in Economic History
Room C321
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7857
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
t.leunig@lse.ac.uk
Research interests
- The effects of new technology on productivity in Britain, 1800-2000
- Links between learning-by-doing, labour turnover and labour productivity
- Effects of industrial structure on the British cotton industry
- The determinants of heights in Britain
- The performance of railways in Britain, 1840-2009
- Economic geography
Current teaching
“Tim Leunig was awarded an LSE teaching prize in 2006 and in 2002. He was the first person at LSE to be awarded two teaching prizes”
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EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth (co-lecturer: Chris Minns)
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EH238 The Industrial Revolution
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EH240 British Business and Contemporary Economic Performance (co-lecturer: Gerben Bakker)
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EH304 The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War
Office Hours Lent 2010
Week 1 Wed 3.30
Week 2 Tu 2.30
Week 3 Wed 2.30
Week 4 Wed 2.30
Week 5 Wed 2.30
Week 6 Tu 2.30
Week 7 Wed 2.30
Week 8 Tu 11.30
Week 9 Wed 2.30
Week 10 Wed 2.30
Students who cannot make these times should email for an appointment Recent and forthcoming seminar and conference presentations
2010
- Public Policy Department seminar series, De Montford Unversity, Leicester
- The future of housing policy conference, Birmingham
2009
- Harvard Economic History Workshop
- University of Lund Economic History Seminar
- FRESH conference, Copenhagen
- St.Paul's Cathedral, London
- The future of manufacturing conference, Business, Innovation and Skills Department, London
- London Metropolitan University Economics Event
- Public Service Programme End of Grant Event conference, London
- Economics Seminar, Cardiff University
- Economic History Workshop, European University Institute
- Transport Economics Group Conference, London
- Regeneration Seminar, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam joint seminar
- Royal Aeronautical Society Debate on the Future of Heathrow
- Business History Unit, LSE
- Said Business School, Oxford
2008
- London, Civils Transport Conference
- Porto, OECD regeneration pre-ministerial meeting
- North Lambeth Economic and Social History Seminar
- National Railway Museum, York
- Northwestern University Economic History Workshop
- Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, The future of Liverpool
- Cambridge University, Modern Economic History Seminar
- Lund University, Economic History Seminar
- Queen's University, Belfast, Economics Workshop
- World Cliometrics Society conference
- BERR conference on the future of the North
- Oxford University, Economic History Seminar
- Northumbria University Business School workshop on urban regeneration
- Centre for Market and Public Organisation Conference on Public Services
2007
- Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago
- Royal Aeronautical Society Conference on multi-modal transport
- Economic History Association Meetings, Austin
- Anglo-Dutch conference on assessing public service quality evaluation, Rotterdam
- Ohio State University Economics Workshop
- Business History Conference, Cleveland
- Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Economic History Seminar
- Public Services Programme Workshop, York
- Carlos III Madrid, History Department
- LSE Economics Department, International Economics Seminar
- BERR lunchtime economics seminar series
- 2006 Keio Anthropometrics Workshop, Tokyo
- Economic History Society Conference, Reading
- International Economic History Association Conference, Helsinki
- Association of Business History Conference, London
2006
- Oxford University Economic History Seminar
- UC Davis Economics Department
- Stanford University Economics Department
- Caltech Humanities and Social Science Department
- UC Irvine Economics Department
- UCLA Economics Department
- Cambridge University Group for Population Studies
- LSE Geography Department
- Royal Holloway College Economics Department
- 2005 Oxford University Economic History Seminar
- Linkoping University School of Management, Sweden (invited lecture)
- National Railway Museum, York
- Business History Unit, LSE
- Berlin Colloquium in quantitative economic history
2005
- Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford
- Linkoping University School of Management, Sweden
- National Railway Museum, York
- Business History Unit, LSE
Selected publications
- 'Cities, market integration and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth century England and Wales' (with J Humphries) Economic History Review
- 'Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London' (with J Humphries) Explorations in Economic History
- 'Were British Railway Companies Well-Managed in the Early Twentieth Century?' (with N.F.R. Crafts and A. Mulatu) Economic History Review, November 2008, pp.842-66
- 'Spatial Patterns of Development and the British Housing Market' (with H.G. Overman) Oxford Review of Economic Policy Spring 2008
- 'Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways', Journal of Economic History, 66, 3, 2006
- 'A British Industrial Success: Productivity in the Lancashire and New England Cotton Spinning Industries a Century Ago', Economic History Review, Vol LVI, No. 1, Feb 2003, pp. 90-117.
- 'Cotton Industry: Technological Change' in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Mokyr, J. (editor in chief), New York, 2003.
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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago, EH Working Paper, 72/03, 2003.
- 'Height and the High Life - What Future for a Tall Story?' (co-authored with Hans-Joachim Voth) in Economic Challenges of the 21st Century in Historical Perspective David, P. A., and Thomas, M. (eds) Routledge, 2004.
- 'New Answers to Old Questions: Explaining the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913', Journal of Economic History, 61, 2, June 2001
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Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain's continued preference for mule spinning? EH Working Paper, 69/02, 2002.
- 'Did smallpox reduce height? Stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873' (with Hans-Joachim Voth), Economic History Review, 1996.
Working Papers
Public Policy Papers
The Right to Move
Cities Unlimited
Success and the City: Learning from International Urban Policies
Cities Limited
In My Back Yard: Unlocking the Planning System
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Risky business, Inside Housing, 18.9.9, Link to article here
Fewer Jobless, Prospect Magazine, 27.08.09, Issue 162, Link to article here
Must Try Harder,, Inside Housing, Link to article here
In the Spirit of the Law, Inside Housing, 06.05.09, Link to article here
The Obvious Choice, Inside Housing, 03.04.09, Link to article here
Female Hysteresis, Prospect Magazine, 01.03.09, Issue 156, Link to article here
Co-ordinated Inflation Could Bail Us All Out, Financial Times, 02.15.09, Link to article here
Give Council Tenants the Right to Move, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 30.01.09, Link to article here
Time to build on the Green Belt, Inside Housing, 30.01.09, Link to article here
The Power of Choice, Inside Housing, 28.11.08, Link to article here
Breaking Up is Hard, Inside Housing, 01.10.08, Link to article here
The Regeneration Game is Up, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 13.08.08, Link to article here
Cost Analysis, Inside Housing 08.08.08 Link to article here
Why We Need Economics Teachers, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 04.08.08, Link to article here
How to Feed the World, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 28.05.08, Link to article here
Safe as Houses, Prospect Magazine, 24.05.08, Issue 146 Link to article here
A Fall in Property Prices that Kicks Away the Ladder, Financial Times, 08.04.08, Link to article here
Train Times, Centrepiece, Winter 2008/9, Link to article here
Where to Build Britain's New Houses, Centrepiece, Spring 2008, Link to article here
Wanted: Another Great British Migration, Financial Times, 30.09.08, Link to article here
Auction Land to Ease the Housing Crisis, with Edward Davey, Financial Times, 24.07.08, Link to article here
Curriculum Vitae
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