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Professor Robert Allen

Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford

Year Elected: 2003

He is a versatile economic historian whose field is economic growth over the long run. His ambitious empirical projects have included entrepreneurial performance in Victorian Britain, agricultural productivity and institutional change in Britain c1500-1850, Soviet industrial-isation and national accounts, and standards of living in Europe and worldwide, c1300-1900.