Ideology or geo-politics? International differences in business-state relationships c.1830-1990

Robert Millward has been Professor of Economic History in the Department of History, University of Manchester since 1989 and Emeritus Professor since 2005. He was previously Professor of Economics in the University of Salford and Secretary-General of the European Historical Economics Society. He has published extensively on industrial history and on the history and economics of the public sector, including the development of public health programmes and their impact on population trends.

Recent research has focused on Europe and its infrastructure industries, as in his 2005 book, Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport c.1830-1990, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

"Population and Living Standards 1914-45", (with J. Baten) in S.Broadberry and K.O'Rourke (eds.) Cambridge Economic History of Europe 1700-2000, Cambridge University Press, 2010

"The institutional economic history of infrastructure industries c1830-1990: ideology, technology, geo-politics?", chapter for International handbook for the liberalisation of infrastructures, edited by M. Finger and R. Künneke, Edward Elgar, 2009

"Business and the State: Strategies and Technologies" in G. Jones and J. Zeitlin (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Business History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008

Two chapters in J.Clifton, D.Fuentes and F.Comin (eds.), Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave, 2007

"La distribution de l'eau dans les villes en Grande-Bretagne au XIXe et XXe siècles: le gouvernement municipal et le dilemme des compagnies privées", Histoire, Economie et Société, 26(2) (April-June), 2007, 111-128

"Business and Government in Electricity Network Integration in Western Europe c.1900-50", Business History, 48(4), 2006, pp. 479-500.

"Infant mortality in Victorian Britain: The mother as medium", Economic History Review, November 2001 (with F.Bell)

Venue: Lilybank House Seminar Room

Time: 11am

Tea, coffee & biscuits will be provided.

 

First published: 14 May 2009

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