Economics and History

David Greasley is Professor of Economic History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University. His research interests include the construction of national income accounts in historical perspective, comparative economic development, the Great Depression in the USA, British industrialization since 1700, and the economic history of New Zealand.

Les Oxley is Professor in Economics at the University of Canterbury, and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Australia.  His research interests include modelling and testing theories of economic growth, financial econometrics, intellectual property, energy economics and cliometrics.  He is a founding editor of Blackwell's Journal of Economic Surveys and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals.