The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
The Arthur Lewis Lab is a new interdisciplinary research group in economic history and comparative development at The University of Manchester.
The lab will promote cutting-edge research on economic growth and development, political economy, and cultural economics from a long-run historical perspective. Our aim is to become a leading centre for the study of big questions in these fields, building on the legacy of our association with the late Nobel laureate Arthur Lewis.
The group is led by Nuno Palma (director) and Guillaume Blanc (deputy director), and includes members from across the University, in particular from the Department of Economics, where the lab is based, the Department of History, and the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), as well as external affiliates.
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Our people
Leadership
- Nuno Palma - Director, Arthur Lewis Lab and Professor of Economics
- Guillaume Blanc - Deputy Director, Arthur Lewis Lab and Lecturer in Economics
Faculty members
- Guillaume Blanc - Lecturer in Economics
- Caitlin Brown - Lecturer in Economics
- Catherine Casson - Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
- Abhishek Chakravarty - Lecturer in Economics
- Georg Christ - Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History
- Katsushi Imai - Reader in Economics
- Alessia Isopi - Lecturer in Economics
- Emiel Jerphanion - Lecturer in Finance
- Nuno Palma - Professor of Economics
- Stefan Petry - Lecturer in Finance
- Phil Roessner - Professor of Early Modern History
- Edmond Smith - Senior Lecturer in Economic Cultures
- Bart van Ark - Professor of Productivity Studies
- Ákos Valentinyi - Professor of Macroeconomics
- Aashish Velkar - Senior Lecturer in Economic History
- Xiaobing Wang - Senior Lecturer in the Economics of China
- Mazhar Waseem - Reader in Economics
External members
- Luz Marina Arias - University of Sheffield
- Sean Bottomley - University of Northumbria
- Soeren Henn - Newcastle University
- Thilo Huning - University of York
- Eric Melander - University of Birmingham
- Andrea Papadia - University of York
- Devesh Rustagi - University of Nottingham
- Brian Varian - Newcastle University
Students and postgraduate researchers
- Jubril Animashaun - PhD student
- Hélder Carvalhal - Postdoctoral Fellow
- Carlos Javier Charotti - PhD student
- Adrian Nicholas Gachet - PhD student
- Meng Wu - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Events
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Public Lectures
- Deirdre N. McCloskey - Liberalism caused the great enrichment - 15 June 2023
Conferences
- The Chinese Economy in the Long Run - 21 October 2022
Keynote speakers: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) and Richard von Glahn (UCLA)
- Big Counterfactuals of Macro-Political History - 24 March 2023
Keynote speakers: James A. Robinson (Chicago) and Walter Scheidel (Stanford)
- Productivity Revolutions: Past and Future - 16 June 2023 [eventbrite]
Keynote speakers: Michela Giorcelli (UCLA) and John Van Reenen (LSE & MIT)
Graduate Student Workshop
- Lewis Lab Graduate Student Workshop - 23 March 2023
Faculty participants: Lydia Assouad (LSE), Guillaume Blanc (Manchester), Dan Bogart (UC Irvine), James Fenske (Warwick), Soeren Henn (Newcastle), Yuzuru Kumon (NHH), Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-EI), Nuno Palma (Manchester), and James Robinson (Chicago)
Job Market Seminars
- Jordi Caum Julio (Barcelona) - 9 January 2023
- Gianni Marciante (Warwick) - 9 January 2023
- Daniela Sola (CEMFI) - 10 January 2023
- Peiyuan Li (Colorado Boulder) - 10 January 2023
Seminars
- Brian Varian (Newcastle) - 5 October 2022
- Richard von Glahn (UCLA) - 27 October 2022
- Luz Marina Arias (Sheffield) - 24 November 2022
- Catherine Casson (Manchester) - 12 January 2023
- John Wallis (Maryland) - 19 January 2023
- Sean Bottomley (Northumbria) - 23 February 2023
- Thilo Huning (York) - 9 March 2023
- James Robinson (Chicago) - 22 March 2023 (MES)
- Edmond Smith (Manchester) - 6 April 2023
- David Weil (Brown) - 3 May 2023 (MES)
- André Silva (Nova SBE) - 4 May 2023
- Melanie Xue (LSE) - 11 May 2023
- Soeren Henn (Newcastle) - 18 May 2023
- Eric Chaney (Oxford) - 8 June 2023
- Xiaobing Wang (Manchester) - 22 June 2023