Professor Stephen Broadberry

Current Research Papers

Growth and productivity performance, post-1850

• "Industrial Productivity Performance in Eastern Europe Between the Wars: A Czechoslovak/UK Comparison", (with Alexander Klein). (pdf file) (This version 18 May 2009).
•  "Real Wages and Labour Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938: A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards", (with Carsten Burhop). (pdf file) (This version 15 June 2009)
•  "The Historical Roots of India's Service-Led Development: A sectoral Analysis of Anglo-Indian Productivity Differences, 1870-2000" (with Bishnupriya Gupta). (pdf file) (This version 6 May 2009).
• "An Economic History of Modern Europe: Industry, 1700-1870", (with Rainer Fremdling and Peter Solar). (pdf file) (This version 6 April 2008).
• "An Economic History of Modern Europe: Sectoral Developments, 1870-1914", (with Giovanni Federico and Alexander Klein). (pdf file) (This version 18 April 2008).

Long run economic growth, pre-1850

•  "British Economic Growth, 1300-1850: Some Preliminary Estimates" (with Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen). (pdf file) (This version 14 December 2009).

• "British Economic Growth and the Business Cycle, 1700-1850: Annual estimates" (with Bas van Leeuwen). (pdf file) (This version 25 November 2008). 

• "English Agricultural Output 1250-1450: Some Preliminary Estimates", (with Bruce Campbell and Bas van Leeuwen). (pdf file) (This version 27 November 2008). 

• "English Agricultural Output and Labour Productivity, 1250-1850: Some Preliminary Estimates", (with Alexander Apostolides, Bruce Campbell, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen). (pdf file) (This version 26 November 2008). 

• "English Gross Domestic Product, 1300-1700: Some Preliminary Estimates", (with Alexander Apostolides, Bruce Campbell, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen). (pdf file) (This version 26 November 2008).  

• "Commercialisation, Factor Prices and Technological Progress in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth", (with Sayantan Ghosal and Eugenio Proto). (pdf file) (This version 20 April 2009).

• "Indian GDP Before 1870: Some Preliminary Estimates and a Comparison with Britain", (with Bishnupriya Gupta). (pdf file) (This version 18 October 2009).

• "Recent Developments in the Theory of Very Long Run Growth: A Historical Appraisal" (pdf file) (This version 16 November 2007)