Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Faculty Member, Economic History

Professor

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Leandro Prados-de-la-Escosura (Spain, 1951), received a D. Phil. (Oxford University) and a Ph.D. (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), and is Professor of Economic History and a Research Fellow of the Figuerola Institute at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. He is also a Research Associate at the CEPR.

He has taught at University of California, San Diego, and Georgetown University (as Prince of Asturias Professor). He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. During the academic year 2011-12 he is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE.

He has served as President of the European Historical Economics Society [EHES] (2001-2003) and as Trustee of the Cliometric Society (1990-1993) and EHES (1991-1995). Since 2006 he belongs to the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association.

He is an Editorial Board member of Explorations in Economic History, Cliometrica, and Histoire Economique Quantitative, and during 1997-2010 of the European Review of Economic History and now a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee. He is also a former editor of Revista de Historia Económica/ Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (1991-1994).

He has contributed to the main journals in economic history and published and edited books on growth and retardation in modern Spain, the economic consequences of Latin American independence, the costs and benefits of European imperialism, and British exceptionalism at the time of the Industrial Revolution.

His current research interests are economic freedom and well-being in historical perspective; growth, inequality, and welfare in Latin America since independence; and the rise and decline of Spain.

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