Professor Avner Offer
M.A., D.Phil., FBA
Chichele Professor of Economic History
Email: avner.offer@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
International political economy, circa 1850-1920. Social and economic context of war. Urban and rural economy and land tenure. Legal context of social and economy history. Consumption, affluence and quality of life in the United States and Britain since the 1920s. Global transition from social democracy to market liberalism.
Supervision Interests
International political economy, circa 1850-1920. Social and economic context of war. Urban and rural economy and land tenure. Legal context of social and economy history. Consumption, affluence and quality of life in the United States and Britain since the 1920s. Global transition from social democracy to market liberalism. All broadly conceived.
Selected Publications:
- Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. (Cambridge, 1981)
- The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. (Oxford, 1989)
- 'Household Appliances and the Use of Time in the U.S.A., and Britain since the 1920s', Economic History Review, second series. Vol 47, 4 (1994)
- 'Between the gift and the market: The economy of regard', The Economic History Review. Vol 50, 3 (1997) pp. 450-476
- 'Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914' in Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3, The Nineteenth Century. (Oxford, 1999) pp. 690-711
- 'Body-Weight and Self-Control in the USA and Britain since the 1950s', Social History of Medicine. Vol 14, 1 (2001) pp. 79-106
- 'Why has the Public Sector Grown so Large in Market Societies? The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, c. 1870-2000' in Why has the Public Sector Grown so Large in Market Societies? . (Oxford, 2003) pp. 46
- The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950. (Oxford, 2006) 454pp.
- 'The Markup for Lemons: Quality and Uncertainty in American and British Used Car Markets, c. 1953-1973', Oxford Economic Papers. Vol 59 (1) (2007) pp. 131-148
Future Publications:
- 'Charles Hilliard Feinstein (1932-2005)', Proceedings of the British Academy. (2007)
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