Global Economy
Staff Updates
News - Summer 2013
New Staff
In April, we were joined by Professor Jeff Fear. Jeff has been appointed as Professor of International Business History at the University. Jeff has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Business School, and Redlands University. He has written on international cartels, comparative accounting and banking systems, management history, and organizational learning, and his current research is on multinational small and family companies. Jeff will be teaching on the Globalized Economy core course.
In July 2013, Professor Jim Tomlinson will join us from the University of Dundee. Previous to that, Jim taught economics and politics for many years at Brunel University in London. His work has mostly been on government policy in the post-1945 period, and he has recently written on the nature of economic credibility, and on the first and second periods of globalization. Jim will be teaching next year on the two core courses: The Globalised economy, and Business in the Global Economy.
Congratulations
Dr Mark Freeman, who teaches the course on Poverty and Inequality in the Globalised World, has been awarded a prestigious prize for his latest book. Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland Before 1850, by Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor, was published in 2012 by University of Chicago Press and in March 2013 was awarded the Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference. This prize is supported by the Alfred P Sloan Foundatino and recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprise on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.
News - Autumn 2012
Professor Catherine Schenk spoke at a conference on “Slowing Down Prices: Adaptation of States and European Economic Actors to the Inflationary Fever of the 1970s” at Universite d’Artois, France on 15th November 2012. Her paper “Inflation, risk and international banking; responses by regulators and the market in the 1970s” is related to her ongoing project on International Financial Regulation. Professor Schenk also visited the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in November 2012. She has previously spent time consulting with the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC, the Bank of Japan and the Hong Kong Monetary Institute.
Dr Duncan Ross attended a conference and workshop in June 2012 on incorporating new research in teaching business history at Harvard Business School. This involved scholars from all over the world considering how best to make use of current and very recent research to ensure that the material we use in our courses is as up-to-date as possible. Many of the issues discussed and lessons learned at that meeting have been valuable in shaping this year’s Global Economy programme.
In September 2012, Professor Ray Stokes hosted the BEAT workshop at the Centre for Business History in Scotland. This workshop, on Business in Europe and Asia, brought together scholars from Britain, Germany, Netherlands, and Japan to discuss long-run fluctuations in business competitiveness and transformation, and considered the roots of business success in the 21st century.
Recent publications by MSc Global Economy course staff:
- Jim Phillips: Collieries, Communities and the Miners’ Strike in Scotland, 1984-85 (Manchester University Press, 2012)
- Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor: Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland Before 1850-- (University of Chicago Press, 2012)