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Contact Information
solar@fusl.ac.be
Phone: +32 2 211 939
Fax: +32 2 211 7997
43 Blvd du Jardin Botanique
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Current Appointments
Professor of Economics, Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Assistant Professor, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Bruxelles
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University
B.A. in Economics, Swarthmore College
Research
Interests
European economic history
Teaching
Public Finance
Representative
Publications
- Irish Agriculture: A Price History (with Liam Kennedy) (Dublin, 2007)
- “The
Irish Cotton Industry from the Industrial Revolution to Partition”
(with Andy Bielenberg), Irish Economic and Social History, 34 (2007),
1-28
- “The Crisis of
the Late 1840s: What Can We Learn from Prices”, forthcoming in C. O
Grada, R. Papping and E. Vanhaute, eds., When the Potato Failed: Causes
and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850
(Turnhout, 2007), 79-94
- “Shipping and Irish Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century”, Economic History Review, 61 (2006), 717-742
- “The Irish Linen Trade, 1852-1914”, Textile History, 36 (2005), 46-68
- “An
Old Poor Law for the New Europe?” (with Richard Smith), in P. David and
M. Thomas, eds., The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (2003),
463-77
- “The Linen
Industry in the Nineteenth Century”, in D.T. Jenkins, ed., The
Cambridge History of Western Textiles (Cambridge, 2003), II, 809-824
- “Irish Trade in the Nineteenth Century”, in D. Dickson and C. O Grada, eds.,Refiguring Ireland (Dublin, 2003), 277-89
- “Belgium:
Liberalism by Default” (with Luc Hens), in J. Foreman-Peck and G.
Federico, eds., European Industrial Policy: The Twentieth-Century
Experience (Oxford, 1999), 194-214
- “The Benelux Countries”, in M.S. Schulze, ed., Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Harlow, 1999), 255-69
- “The
Benelux Countries” (with Herman de Jong), in B.J. Foley, ed., European
Economies since the Second World War (London, 1998), 102-23
- “The Potato Famine in Europe”, in C. O Grada, ed., Famine 150 (Dublin, 1997), 113-28
- “Economic
Growth in Belgium” (with Isabelle Cassiers and Philippe De Villé), in
N. Crafts and G. Toniolo, eds., Economic Growth in Europe since 1945
(Cambridge, 1996), 173-209
- “Poor Relief and English Economic Development before the Industrial Revolution”, Economic History Review, 48 (1995), 1-22
- “Die
belgische Leinenindustrie im 19. Jahrhundert”, in K. Ditt and S.
Pollard, eds., Von der Heimarbeit in die Fabrik (Paderborn, 1992),
78-105
- “Agricultural
Productivity in Belgium and Ireland in the Early Nineteenth Century”
(with Martine Goossens), in B.M.S. Campbell and M. Overton, eds.,
Agricultural Productivity in the Past (Mancester, 1991), 364-84
- “The Irish Linen Trade, 1820-1852”, Textile History, 21 (1990), 57-85
- “The
Great Famine was No Ordinary Subsistence Crisis”, in E.M. Crawford,
ed., Famine: the Irish Experience, 900-1900 (Edinburgh, 1989), 112-33
- “The
Scottish and Irish Linen Industries Compared, 1780-1860” (with Alastair
Durie), in R.M. Mitchison and P. Roebuck, eds., Scotland and Ireland in
Historical Perspective (Edinburgh, 1988)
- “Agricultural
Productivity and Economic Development in Ireland and Scotland in the
Early Nineteenth Century”, in T.M. Devine and D. Dickson, eds., Ireland
and Scotland 1600-1900 (Edinburgh, 1983), 70-88
- “A
Bicentenary Contribution to the History of the Cost of Living in
America” (with Paul A. David), Research in Economic History, 2 (1977),
1-80
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