Prof Patrick O'Brien, FBA

Career: Univ of London: res fell 1960-63, lectr 1963-70, reader in economics and econ history 1967-70, univ reader in econ history and professorial fell St Antony's Coll Oxford 1984-90 (univ lectr in econ history and faculty fell 1970-84), prof of econ history and dir of the Inst of Historical Research (IHR) Univ of London 1990-98; centennial prof of econ history LSE 1999, prof of global economic history LSE 2009; convenor European Research Cncl Project on the Devpt and Diffusion of Useful and Reliable Knowledge in the East and the West 1368-1846; pres Econ History Soc 1998-2001; Hon DUniv: Carlos III Madrid 1999, Uppsala 2000; FRHistS, FAE, FBA, FRSA

Books and Publications: The Revolution in Egypt's Economic System (1966), The New Economic History of the Railways (1977), Economic Development in Britain and France 1780-1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century (jtly with C Keyder), Productivity in the Economics of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (jt ed, 1983), Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe 1914-1930 (ed, 1983), International Productivity Comparisons 1750-1939 (ed, 1986), The Economic Effects of the Civil War (1988), The Industrial Revolution and British Society (ed with R Quinalt, 1993), The Industrial Revolution in Europe (ed, 1994), The Costs and Benefits of European Imperialism (ed with L Prados de la Escosura, 1998), Industrialization, 4 Vols (ed, 1998), Atlas of World History (ed, 2000), Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe (jt ed, 2001), The Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-1989 (ed with A Clesse, 2002), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience 1688-2002 (ed with D Winch, 2002); contrib to numerous learned jls