Robert Allen, Oxford University
This annual event honors Simon Kuznets, the famous Belarusian-American economist who helped establish the Yale Economic Growth Center in 1961.
Robert Allen
Robert Allen is a Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. He lectured at the University of British Columbia from 1975 to 2001. He was then a Professor of Economic History at Oxford University until 2014, when he joined NYU AD.
Allen has written on why some countries are rich and others poor, the causes and consequences of industrialization, English agricultural History, the extinction of whales, the origins of the coal economy, communist economic development, the global History of wages, prices, and living standards, and the measurement of global poverty. He is currently researching and writing on the economic and political structure of Arabia and on the origins of agriculture and the first states.