Dr Tim Leunig

• 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

 

 

• Room: SAR 6.04 (Sardinia House) 
• Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7857  
• Email: t.leunig@lse.ac.uk
• CV (PDF)

Current teaching

• Currently on leave 2015-6

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.

 

 Selected publications

• 'Social Savings' Journal of Economic Surveys, Forthcoming 2010
• '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, Vol 62, Issue 2, pp. 458-478, May 2009
• '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, Vol. 46, Issue 1, January 2009, pp 120-131.
• '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 and Corrigendum, Economic History Review 2010 forthcoming.
• '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.
• 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
• 'Did smallpox reduce height? Stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873' (with Hans-Joachim Voth), Economic History Review, 1996. 

Working Papers  

• Learning from some of Britain's successful sectors: An historical analysis of the role of government BIS Economics Paper no. 6
• Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749  CEP Discussion Paper, Tim Leunig, Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis, November 2009, Paper No' CEPDP0956
• Can Profitable Arbitrage Opportunities in the Raw Cotton Market Explain Britain's Continued Preference for Mule Spinning? (PDF), EH Working Paper, 69/02, 2002
• Piece Rates and Learning: Understanding Work and Production in the New England Textile Industry a Century Ago (PDF), EH Working Paper, 72/03, 2003

Public Policy Papers

• The decline in manufacturing and its regional consequences in the UK, published by La Vie des Idees, Paris 2010.
• Low house prices and owner occupation: A better alternative to social housing
• 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 articles

• Economy class: the economics of education  Prospect,  25/08/2010
• Economy class: public or private? Prospect , 21/07/2010
• Call this social justice? Inside Housing 02/07/2010
• Out with the Old, Inside Housing 10/05/10
• "Should I stay or should I go?" Inside Housing 12/03/2010
• Build, build, build, Inside Housing 15/01/2010
• I've changed my mind about carbon taxes  , Comment is Free, Dec 27 2009
• Unsung hero , Inside Housing 06/11/2009
• Risky business,  Inside Housing, 18.9.9,
• Fewer Jobless, Prospect Magazine, 27.08.09, Issue 162,
• Must Try Harder,, Inside Housing,
• In the Spirit of the Law, Inside Housing, 06.05.09, 
• The Obvious Choice, Inside Housing, 03.04.09,
• Female Hysteresis, Prospect Magazine, 01.03.09, Issue 156, 
• Co-ordinated Inflation Could Bail Us All Out, Financial Times, 02.15.09,
• Give Council Tenants the Right to Move, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 30.01.09,  
• Time to build on the Green Belt, Inside Housing, 30.01.09
• The Power of Choice, Inside Housing, 28.11.08,
• Breaking Up is Hard, Inside Housing, 01.10.08
• The Regeneration Game is Up, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 13.08.08
• Cost Analysis, Inside Housing 08.08.08
• Why We Need Economics Teachers, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 04.08.08
• How to Feed the World,  Comment is Free, The Guardian, 28.05.08
• Safe as Houses, Prospect Magazine, 24.05.08, Issue 146
• A Fall in Property Prices that Kicks Away the Ladder, Financial Times, 08.04.08
• Train Times, Centrepiece, Winter 2008/9
• Where to Build Britain's New Houses, Centrepiece, Spring 2008,
• Wanted: Another Great British Migration,  Financial Times, 30.09.08,
• Auction Land to Ease the Housing Crisis, with Edward Davey, Financial Times, 24.07.08