Professor Avner Offer

Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor

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All Souls College
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Publications

• 'Charles Hilliard Feinstein (1932-2005)'. Proceedings of the British Academy (2007)
• 'The Markup for Lemons: Quality and Uncertainty in American and British Used Car Markets, c. 1953-1973'. Oxford Economic Papers 59 (1) (2007), 131-148
• The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford, 2006), 454
• 'Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-being', in The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (Oxford, 2003), 371-399
• Why has the Public Sector Grown so Large in Market Societies? The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, c. 1870-2000 (2003)
• 'Body-Weight and Self-Control in the USA and Britain since the 1950s'. Social History of Medicine 14, 1 (2001), 79-106
• 'A Dialogue with the Past', in Living Economic and Social History (Glasgow, 2001), 254-257
• 'The Blockade of Germany and the Strategy of Starvation, 1914-1918: An Agency Perspective', in Great War, Total War (New York, 2000), 169-188
• 'Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914', in Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3, The Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1999), 690-711
• 'The American automobile frenzy of the 1950s', in From family firms to corporate capitalism: essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias (Oxford, 1998), 315-353
• 'Between the gift and the market: The economy of regard'. The Economic History Review 50, 3 (1997), 450-476
• In Pursuit of the Quality of Life (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996), 302
• 'Going to War in 1914: A Matter of Honor?'. Politics & Society 23 (1995), 213-241
• 'Household Appliances and the Use of Time in the U.S.A., and Britain since the 1920s'. Economic History Review, second series 47, 4 (1994)
• The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford, 1989)
• Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (Cambridge, 1981)