Gregory Clark, Chair of Business and Social Sciences, is an Full Professor of Economics at the Historical Economics and Development Group, HEDG, at º£½ÇÉçÇø. He is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis, and a Visiting Professor in the Economic History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE. He is a world-renowned researcher in Quantitative Economic History and has published two widely cited books on international economic history: A Farewell to Alms – A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton UP, 2007); and The Son Also Rises: Surnames and Social Mobility (Princeton UP, 2014).
The key research idea, which has led to his moving to the Economics Department of the º£½ÇÉçÇø, is to apply Clark’s innovative techniques to the Human Capital of the Nordic Countries (HCNC) database (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation to PI prof. Paul Sharp at º£½ÇÉçÇø) over multiple generations in Denmark and Norway, spanning 1790 to 1940.
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