School of Social & Political Sciences

Professor Neil Rollings

Professor of Economic and Business History (Economic and Social History)

telephone: 01413306801
email: Neil.Rollings@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

Research Interests

British economic policy since 1945, especially 1945-73
Britain and European integration 1945-73
Business-government relations since 1945
Business and European integration since 1945

Research Contribution

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Council member, Economic History Society
Secretary/Treasurer (2004-6) and Treasurer (2006-7), Association of Business Historians

Grants

AHRB Research Fellowship, October - December 2003
'Economic policy under the Conservatives 1951-64: a guide to documents at the Public Record Office' (with R Lowe and R Middleton), ESRC grant, October 1998-April 2002, graded outstanding

Additional information

Recent and Forthcoming Conference Papers

University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Edinburgh, September 2008
Economic History Society, Nottingham, March 2008
Japanese History of Economic Thought conference, Fukuoka, March 2008
Business History Conference, Toronto, June 2006
Association of Business Historians, QM, London, June 2006
Tax History Conference, UCLA, August 2005
Association of Business Historians, Glasgow, June 2005
IHR/CNRS Anglo-French conference on history and archives, London and Oxford, October 2004
European Business History Association, Barcelona, September 2004
Joint Business History Conference and European Business History Association, June 2003
(with Roger Middleton) Economic History Society conference, Birmingham, April 2002

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2008 | 2007 | 2004 | 2003 | 2001

Number of items: 20.

2017

Rollings, N. (2017) Babcock and Wilcox Ltd., the ‘Babcock Family’ and regulation 17/62: a business response to new competition policy in the early 1960s. Business History, (doi:10.1080/00076791.2017.1310197) (Early Online Publication)

Rollings, N. (2017) The boards of UK nationalised industries and their members c.1950–c.1979. In: Felisini, D. (ed.) Reassessing the Role of Management in the Golden Age: An International Comparison of Public Sector Managers 1945–1975. Series: Central issues in contemporary economic theory and policy. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 17-37. ISBN 9783319487212 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48722-9_3)

Rollings, N. (2017) Between business and academia in post-war Britain. In: Backhouse, R. E., Bateman, B. W., Nishizawa, T. and Plehwe, D. (eds.) Liberalism and the Welfare State: Economists and Arguments for the Welfare State. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN 9780190676681

2016

Rollings, N. (2016) The boards of UK nationalised industries and their members c.1950-c.1979. Rivista di Politica Economica, (Accepted for Publication)

2014

Rollings, N. (2014) The twilight world of British business politics: the Spring Sunningdale conferences since the 1960s. Business History, 56(6), pp. 915-935. (doi:10.1080/00076791.2013.847429)

2013

Rollings, N. (2013) Cracks in the post-war Keynesian settlement? The role of organised business in Britain in the rise of neoliberalism before Margaret Thatcher. Twentieth-Century British History, 24(4), pp. 637-659. (doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwt005)

Rollings, N. and Kipping, M. (2013) La crisi dell "economia mista": una comparizione internazionale. In: Silva, F. (ed.) Storia dell’IRI. I difficili anni ’70 e i tentative di rilancio negli anni ’80 1973-1989. Fintecna: Rome, pp. 574-615. ISBN 9788858106877

Rollings, N. (2013) Business Eurofederations and European integration from the Second World War to the 1970s. In: Fraboulet, D., Locatelli, A. M. and Tedeschi, P. (eds.) Historical and International Comparison of Business Interest Associations, 19th-20th Centuries. Series: International Issues (29). Peter Lang: Brussels, pp. 175-192. ISBN 9782875740973

2012

Rollings, N. and Moguen-Toursel, M. (2012) European organised business and European integration in the post-Second World War period. In: Internationale Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensbeziehungen nach 1945. Series: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2012/1). Akademie Verlag: Berlin, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9783050056678

2011

Rollings, N. (2011) Multinational enterprise and government controls on outward foreign direct investment in the US and UK in the 1960's. Enterprise and Society, 12(2), pp. 398-434. (doi:10.1093/es/khq126)

Moguen-Toursel, M. and Rollings, N. (2011) Les apports de la business history à l’histoire de l’intégration européenne. In: Badel, L. and Michel, H. (eds.) Patronats et Integration Européenne: Pour un Dialogue Disciplinaire Raisonné. Series: Cahiers de fare (1). L'Harmattan: Paris, pp. 61-72. ISBN 9782296554986

2008

Rollings, N. (2008) Private transnational governance in the heyday of the nation-state: the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF). Economic History Review, 61(2), pp. 409-431. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00399.x)

2007

Rollings, N. (2007) Britain and Europe. In: Carnevali, F. and Strange, J.-M. (eds.) Twentieth-century Britain: economic, social, and cultural change. Longman, pp. 339-353. ISBN 9780582772878

Rollings, N. (2007) British business history : a review of the periodical literature for 2005. Business History, 49(3), pp. 271-292. (doi:10.1080/00076790701294956)

Rollings, N. (2007) British business in the formative years of European integration, 1945-1973. Series: Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511371738

Rollings, N. (2007) Firm strategies and public policy in integrated Europe (1950-1980). In: Moguen-Toursel, M. (ed.) Purchase tax or value-added tax: British industry, indirect taxation and European integration in the 1960s. Series: Euroclio. Etudes et documents (37). Peter Lang. ISBN 9789052010458

2004

Ringe, A., Rollings, N. and Middleton, R. (2004) Economic policy under the Conservatives, 1951-64: a guide to documents in the National Archives of the UK. Institute of Historical Research: London. ISBN 9781871348934

Rollings, N. and Kipping, M. (2004) Et netværk for industriens hoved-organisationer i 1950'erne'. In: Danish Business History Yearbook 2004. Erhvervsarkivet.

2003

Rollings, N. (2003) The confederation of British industry and European integration in the 1960s. In: Daddow, O.J. (ed.) Harold Wilson and European integration. Series: Cass series - British foreign and colonial policy. Frank Cass, pp. 115-134. ISBN 0714652229

2001

Rollings, N. (2001) Whitehall and the control of prices and profits in a major war, 1919-1939. Historical Journal, 44(2), pp. 517-540. (doi:10.1017/S0018246X0100187X)

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