Robert Carson Allen

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• Oxford University / Department of Economics / Economics Group, Nuffield College (weight: 10%)
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• New York University Abu Dhabi / Economics (weight: 90%)
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• Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:107:y:2017:i:12:p:3690-3721)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The Economic Origins of Government (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:113:y:2023:i:10:p:2507-45)
  by Robert C. Allen & Mattia C. Bertazzini & Leander Heldring
• A Review of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (RePEc:aea:jeclit:v:46:y:2008:i:4:p:946-73)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Compte rendu de séminaire - Les fermiers de l'Ile-de-France : XVe - XVIIIe siècle (RePEc:ags:inrace:229013)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Poverty and the Labor Market: Today and Yesterday (RePEc:anr:reveco:v:12:y:2020:p:107-134)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The price of freehold land and the interest rate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:41:y:1988:i:1:p:33-50)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Tracking the agricultural revolution in England (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:52:y:1999:i:2:p:209-235)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Progress and poverty in early modern Europe (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:56:y:2003:i:3:p:403-443)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Agricultural productivity and rural incomes in England and the Yangtze Delta, c.1620–c.18201 (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:62:y:2009:i:3:p:525-550)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:64:y:2011:i::p:8-38)
  by Robert C. Allen & Jean-Pascal Bassino & Debin Ma & Christine Moll-Murata & Jan Luiten Van Zanden
• Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:64:y:2011:i:2:p:357-384)
  by R. C. Allen
• Was there an ‘industrious revolution’ before the industrial revolution? An empirical exercise for England, c. 1300–1830 (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:64:y:2011:i:3:p:715-729)
  by R. C. Allen & J. L. Weisdorf
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:64:y:2011:i:s1:p:8-38)
  by Robert C. Allen & Jean‐Pascal Bassino & Debin Ma & Christine Moll‐Murata & Jan Luiten Van Zanden
• The high wage economy and the industrial revolution: a restatement (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:68:y:2015:i:1:p:1-22)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: lessons from England's social tables, 1688–1867 (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:72:y:2019:i:1:p:88-125)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Real wages once more: a response to Judy Stephenson (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:72:y:2019:i:2:p:738-754)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Spinning their wheels: a reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:73:y:2020:i:4:p:1128-1136)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Warum sind manche Länder reich und andere arm? (RePEc:bpj:jbwige:v:54:y:2013:i:1:p:183-214:n:10)
  by Allen Robert C.
• The rise and decline of the Soviet economy (RePEc:cje:issued:v:34:y:2001:i:4:p:859-881)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Pioneer Steelmaker in the West: The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1872–1903. By H. Lee Scamehorn. Boulder, Colorado, Pruett Publishing Company, 1976. Pp. vii + 231. $19.95. - Iron and Steel in Ameri (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:52:y:1978:i:01:p:140-142_03)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521687850)
  by Allen,Robert C.
• The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521868273)
  by Allen,Robert C.
• Capital accumulation, the soft budget constraint and Soviet industrialisation (RePEc:cup:ereveh:v:2:y:1998:i:01:p:1-24_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Economic structure and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1300–1800 (RePEc:cup:ereveh:v:4:y:2000:i:01:p:1-25_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Peculiar Productivity History of American Blast Furnaces, 1840–1913 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:37:y:1977:i:03:p:605-633_09)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• International Competition in Iron and Steel, 1850–1913 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:39:y:1979:i:04:p:911-937_09)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Modern Europe - Enclosures in Britain, 1750–1830. By Michael Turner. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., for the Economic History Society, 1984. Pp. 96. $5.95 paper (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:47:y:1987:i:02:p:521-522_04)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Inferring Yields from Probate Inventories (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:48:y:1988:i:01:p:117-125_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• On the Road Again with Arthur Young: English, Irish, and French Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:48:y:1988:i:01:p:93-116_00)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Ó Gráda, Cormac
• Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defense Burden, 1940–1945. By Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. pp. xxiv, 338 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:58:y:1998:i:02:p:588-590_02)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. By Lynne Viola. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 312 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:58:y:1998:i:02:p:590-591_02)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Standard of Living in the Soviet Union, 1928–1940 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:58:y:1998:i:04:p:1063-1089_02)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Modern Europe - Stalinism in a Russian Province. A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia. By James Hughes. London: MacMillan Press, Ltd., 1996. Pp. xv, 271. - Industry, State, and So (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:59:y:1999:i:02:p:525-527_02)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. By Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 343. $45.00 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:61:y:2001:i:01:p:256-259_63)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Saving the Whales: Lessons from the Extinction of the Eastern Arctic Bowhead (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:64:y:2004:i:02:p:400-432_00)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Keay, Ian
• The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Analysis (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:68:y:2008:i:01:p:182-210_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:69:y:2009:i:04:p:901-927_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Spinning Jenny: A Fresh Look (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:71:y:2011:i:02:p:461-464_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:72:y:2012:i:04:p:863-894_00)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Murphy, Tommy E. & Schneider, Eric B.
• American Exceptionalism as a Problem in Global History (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:74:y:2014:i:02:p:309-350_00)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:83:y:2023:i:4:p:1175-1220_7)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Una De Cal Y Otra De Arena: Building Comparable Real Wages In A Global Perspective (RePEc:cup:reveco:v:33:y:2015:i:01:p:61-75_00)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Murphy, Tommy E. & Schneider, Eric B.
• The Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of Eighteenth Century Enclosures (RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:92:y:1982:i:368:p:937-53)
  by Allen, Robert C
• Backward into the future: The shift to coal and implications for the next energy transition (RePEc:eee:enepol:v:50:y:2012:i:c:p:17-23)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The growth of labor productivity in early modern English agriculture (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:25:y:1988:i:2:p:117-146)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Labor productivity and farm size in English agriculture before mechanization: Reply to Clark (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:28:y:1991:i:4:p:478-492)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:34:y:1997:i:2:p:135-154)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Agricultural Marketing and the Possibilities for Industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:34:y:1997:i:4:p:387-410)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:38:y:2001:i:4:p:411-447)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• The First Great Whale Extinction: The End of the Bowhead Whale in the Eastern Arctic (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:38:y:2001:i:4:p:448-477)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Keay, Ian
• Engels' pause: Technical change, capital accumulation, and inequality in the british industrial revolution (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:46:y:2009:i:4:p:418-435)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Technology and the great divergence: Global economic development since 1820 (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:49:y:2012:i:1:p:1-16)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Russian real wages before and after 1917 (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:72:y:2019:i:c:p:23-37)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Khaustova, Ekaterina
• Collective invention (RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:4:y:1983:i:1:p:1-24)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India (RePEc:ehl:lserod:32403)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Ma, Debin & Moll-Murata, Christine & van Zanden, Jan Luiten
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan and India (RePEc:ehl:wpaper:27871)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Ma, Debin & Moll-Murata, Christine & Zanden, Jan Luiten van
• The colonial origins of divergence in the Americas: a labour market approach (RePEc:ehs:wpaper:11013)
  by Tommy E Murphy & Robert C Allen & Eric Schneider
• Technology and the Great Divergence (RePEc:ehs:wpaper:11027)
  by Robert C Allen
• Capital Accumulation, Technological Change, and the Distribution of Income during the British Industrial Revolution (RePEc:ehs:wpaper:6005)
  by Robert Allen
• Economics, science, and the British industrial revolution (RePEc:ehs:wpaper:7004)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Unknown item RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02872735 (paper)
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India (RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00647265)
  by Robert C. Allen & Jean-Pascal Bassino & Debin Ma & Christine Moll-Murata & Jan Luiten van Zanden
• Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India (RePEc:hit:hitcei:2009-03)
  by Allen, Robert C. & Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Ma, Debin & Moll-Murata, Christine & Zanden, Jan Luiten van
• The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach (RePEc:igi:igierp:402)
  by Robert C. Allen & Tommy E. Murphy & Eric B. Schneider
• Was there an ‘Industrious Revolution’ before the Industrial Revolution? An Empirical Exercise for England, c. 1300-1830 (RePEc:kud:kuiedp:1014)
  by Robert C. Allen & Jacob Louis Weisdorf
• Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire (RePEc:lis:liswps:706)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Russian Real Wages Before and After 1917: in Global Perspective (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20170003)
  by Robert C. Allen & Ekaterina Khaustova
• The Hand-Loom Weaver and the Power Loom: A Schumpeterian Perspective REVISED (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20170004)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire REVISED (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20170005)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Real Wages Once More: A Response to Judy Stephenson (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20170006)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The Interplay among Wages, Technology, and Globalization: The Labour Market and Inequality, 1620-2020 (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20210065)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Slavery in Arabia and East Africa, 1800-1913 (RePEc:nad:wpaper:20210066)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Lessons from history for the future of work (RePEc:nat:nature:v:550:y:2017:i:7676:d:10.1038_550321a)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The hand-loom weaver and the power loom: a Schumpeterian perspective† (RePEc:oup:ereveh:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:381-402.)
  by Robert C Allen
• The High wage Economy and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_115)
  by Robert Allen
• Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_141)
  by Robert Allen
• The Hand-Loom Weaver and the Power Loom: A Schumpeterian Perspective (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_142)
  by Robert Allen
• Revising England's Social Tables Once Again (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_146)
  by Robert Allen
• Russian Real Wages Before and After 1917: in Global Perspective (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_158)
  by Robert Allen & Ekaterina Khaustova
• Spinning their Wheels: A Reply to Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider (RePEc:oxf:esohwp:_166)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Capital Accumulation, Technological Change, and the Distribution of Income during the British Industrial Revolution (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:239)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Pessimism Preserved: Real Wages in the British Industrial Revolution (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:314)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• Engel`s Pause: A Pessimist`s Guide to the British Industrial Revolution (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:315)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, Japan, and Europe, 1738-1925 (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:316)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• How Prosperous were the Romans? Evidence from Diocletian`s Price Edict (301 AD) (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:363)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:375)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• Technology and the Great Divergence (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:548)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen
• The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:Â A Labour Market Approach (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:559)
  by Robert Allen & Robert C. Allen & Tommy E. Murphy and Eric B. Schneider
• Poverty Lines in History, Theory, and Current International Practice (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:685)
  by Robert Allen
• American Exceptionalism as a Problem in Global History (RePEc:oxf:wpaper:689)
  by Robert Allen
• Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands 1450-1850 (RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198282969)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe (RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199280681)
  by None
• Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199596652)
  by Allen, Robert C.
• A Reassessment of the Soviet Industrial Revolution1 (RePEc:pal:compes:v:47:y:2005:i:2:p:315-332)
  by Robert C Allen
• Soviet Development in World-Historical Perspective, from Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (RePEc:pup:chapts:7611-1)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Compte rendu de séminaire - Les fermiers de l'Ile-de-France : XVe - XVIIIe siècle (RePEc:rae:jouces:v:38:y:1996:p:107-110)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The High Wage Economy and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement (RePEc:rnp:ppaper:dok24)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The High Wage Economy and the Industrial Revolution: A Restatement (RePEc:rnp:ppaper:dok25)
  by Robert C. Allen
• Revolución en los campos: La reinterpretación de la Revolución Agrícola inglesa (RePEc:seh:journl:y:2002:i:26:p:13-32)
  by Robert C. Allen
• The Collapse of Civilization in Southern Mesopotamia (RePEc:spr:cliomt:v:16:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s11698-021-00229-2)
  by Robert C. Allen & Leander Heldring
• Direct versus Implicit Superlative Index Number Formulae (RePEc:tpr:restat:v:63:y:1981:i:3:p:430-35)
  by Allen, Robert C & Diewert, W Erwin
• On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution (RePEc:ucn:oapubs:10197/374)
  by Robert C. Allen & Cormac Ó Gráda
• On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution (RePEc:ucn:wpaper:198645)
  by Robert C. Allen & Cormac Ó Gráda
• Accounting for Price Changes: American Steel Rails, 1879-1910 (RePEc:ucp:jpolec:v:89:y:1981:i:3:p:512-28)
  by Allen, Robert C
• The rise and decline of the Soviet economy (RePEc:wly:canjec:v:34:y:2001:i:4:p:859-881)
  by Robert C. Allen