Professor Eric Neumayer

Eric joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 1998. He is currently LSE's Vice President Planning and Resources as well as LSE’s Deputy President and Vice Chancellor.

An economist by training, he is the author, co-author or co-editor of the following works:

• The Credibility Crisis in Science – Tweakers, Fraudsters and the Manipulation of Empirical Results (with Thomas Plümper), MIT Press, 2026
• Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research (with Thomas Plümper), Cambridge University Press, August 2017
• Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms (Edward Elgar, 1999; Second Revised Edition 2003; Third Revised Edition 2010; Fourth Revised Edition 2014, Fifth Revised Edition 2025)
• Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection Without Protectionism (Earthscan, 2001)
• The Pattern of Aid Giving - the impact of good governance on development assistance (Routledge 2003)
• Handbook of Sustainable Development (with Giles Atkinson and Simon Dietz. Edward Elgar, Second Revised Edition 2014)

His SSRN homepage with his journal articles can be found here.

His selected publications and replication datasets can be seen here.

View Professor Neumayer's CV.

Expertise

Conflict, Economic Development, Environment, Evidence-based Public Policy, Globalisation, Human Development, Migration, Quantitative Methods, Sustainable Development, Violence