Items where Author is "Leunig, Tim"
Number of items: 85.
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A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago.
Leunig, Tim
Cities, market integration and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth century England and Wales.
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim
Comment on Oxley’s "Seat of death and terror".
Leunig, Tim; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Corrigendum: were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century?
Crafts, Nicholas; Leunig, Tim; Mulatu, Abay
Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873.
Voth, Hans-Joachim; Leunig, Tim
Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry.
Stanfors, Maria; Leunig, Tim; Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias
The Liberal Democrats and supply-side economics.
Leunig, Tim
Measuring economic performance and social progress.
Leunig, Tim
Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749.
Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick
New answers to old questions : explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913.
Leunig, Tim
Smallpox did reduce height : a reply to our critics.
Leunig, Tim; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Smallpox really did reduce height : a reply to Razzell.
Leunig, Tim; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Social savings.
Leunig, Tim
Spatial patterns of development and the British housing market.
Leunig, Tim; Overman, Henry G.
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Surprisingly gentle confinement: British treatment of Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war during the napoleonic wars.
Leunig, Tim; van Lottum, Jelle; Poulsen, Bo
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Time is money: a re-assessment of the passenger social savings from Victorian British railways.
Leunig, Tim
Turning NIMBYs into IMBYs.
Leunig, Tim
Understanding the English economy 1381–1869: editor's introduction.
Leunig, Tim
Were British railway companies well-managed in early twentieth century?
Crafts, Nicholas; Leunig, Tim; Mulatu, Abay
The myth of the corporate economy: Great Britain's cotton textile industry, 1900 - 1913.
Leunig, Tim
The myth of the corporate economy: factor costs, industrial structure and technological choice in the Lancashire and New England cotton textile industries, 1900-1913.
Leunig, Tim
Online resource
Abolishing quotas for students with high A level grades will not drive down university fees.
Leunig, Tim
All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not.
Beckett, Charlie; Cammaerts, Bart; Carrera, Leandro N.; Leunig, Tim
Budget 2011: Fiscally neutral, and some ‘radical’ planning changes, but the devil is definitely in the detail.
Leunig, Tim
Budget 2011: The new flat rate pension will reduce poverty among the retired, but employers who offer good pensions may be penalised financially as a result.
Leunig, Tim
Conditional discharges for looters that come forward would be a first step towards community reconciliation in the wake of the recent riots.
Leunig, Tim
David Cameron’s housing benefit proposal is nothing but a gimmick. Building more houses is a better way to cut the housing benefit bill.
Leunig, Tim
Elsevier have a right to price their journals as they see fit, but they must be honest in their reasoning and not attack boycotters with untruths.
Leunig, Tim
Eve of the election: reflections from election experts.
Jones, George W.; Bouçek, Francoise; Hagemann, Sara; Leunig, Tim; Carrera, Leandro N.
George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review has yielded few surprises.
Leunig, Tim
Growth figures show that Britain is essentially going backwards. Bringing forward the £10,000 tax allowance is the best option to encourage growth.
Leunig, Tim
Hard choices in UK public policy – railways.
Leunig, Tim
The Higher Education White Paper is a good start at introducing real competition between universities for academic places.
Leunig, Tim
History tells us that we can get out of the current economic slump if government guarantees low interest rates, rising prices, and provides a more sensible planning system.
Leunig, Tim
Housing is expensive in Britain. This is because we have built too few houses for the number of new households – land auctions will help give us the homes we need.
Leunig, Tim
How to cut the cost of railways and keep fares down.
Leunig, Tim
It’s official: waivers and bursaries don’t attract students.
Leunig, Tim
LSE election experts reflect on the election result.
Bouçek, Françoise; Jones, George W.; Wilks-Heeg, Stuart; Travers, Tony; Beckett, Charlie; Hosein, Gus; Carrera, Leandro N.; Leunig, Tim
Labour’s proposed tuition fees cap does not change the fact that most graduates will never earn enough to repay their loans.
Leunig, Tim
Location matters: putting people first in planning.
Leunig, Tim
More than 1 in 3 Welsh graduates leave Wales to work. The importance of universities is massively increased if graduates stay in the area.
Leunig, Tim
National Insurance is complex and pointless and should be merged with income tax.
Leunig, Tim
The News International phone-hacking saga threatens to retoxify the Tory brand. Cameron needs to be ruthless to save his reputation.
Leunig, Tim
The Office of Fair Access has failed: university fees have been allowed to rise too high and are disproportionate to graduate incomes.
Leunig, Tim
Only competitive tension will keep student fees down – it is time to quit the quotas.
Leunig, Tim
Political pressure may encourage ‘responsible capitalism’ in the short term. But more competition and higher educational standards are needed in the long term.
Leunig, Tim
Poor pupil performance is more about poverty than school quality. We must ensure our schools work for poor children in all places.
Leunig, Tim
Reporting dismal times (guest blog).
Leunig, Tim
The TaxPayers’ Alliance and Institute of Directors have just produced a new report on the British Tax System. Some parts are good, some are plain silly.
Leunig, Tim
Third debate – economic affairs: what our experts said.
Leunig, Tim
This was a Tory budget from a Tory Chancellor.
Leunig, Tim
Unlocking growth in cities.
Leunig, Tim
Water companies should incentivise businesses to use less water and charge households that use high amounts more per unit.
Leunig, Tim
We need hundreds of thousands of new homes in Britain. But in its present form, the government’s proposed new planning framework is not likely to deliver them.
Leunig, Tim
We need to invest much more in our schools. A better educated Britain is better for employers and for improving social mobility.
Leunig, Tim
What "FOREVER 21" means to spatial economists.
Leunig, Tim
When planning for new housing developments, we must make sure they are built where people actually want to live.
Leunig, Tim
While Cameron’s vision is seriously constrained by the economy, his government’s advantage is that the alternative is still tainted by the past.
Leunig, Tim
With one in seven shops now lying empty, high street retail must go where the money is in order to survive.
Leunig, Tim
With the budget on the horizon, the government should take the opportunity to create a fairer and more equal tax system for pensioners.
Leunig, Tim
Without a greater focus on education, the government’s strategy of transferring more power to cities may struggle to deliver growth.
Leunig, Tim
Without a rise in German wages, 2012 may see the beginning of the breakup of the Eurozone.
Leunig, Tim
The ‘emergency’ budget – solving the UK’s problems?: or creating the basis for new crises?
Hills, John; Wehner, Joachim; Dunleavy, Patrick; Cammaerts, Bart; Leunig, Tim
The government’s planned National Planning Policy Framework is a step in the right direction, but policy makers must ensure they get the incentives right, and that decisions are made locally.
Ball, Michael; Barker, Kate; Cheshire, Paul; Evans, Alan; Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa; Gordon, Ian R.; Holman, Nancy; Leunig, Tim; Mace, Alan; Meen, Geoff; Monk, Sarah; Overman, Henry G.; Power, Anne; Scanlon, Kathleen; Rode, Philipp; Tonkiss, Fran; Travers, Tony; Whitehead, Christine M E
The government’s proposed cap on benefits is based upon a questionable grasp of how the benefits system actually works, and would exacerbate difficulties for poor, out of work families.
Leunig, Tim
The proposed benefit cap for those out of work means that government expects people to live on 62p per day.
Leunig, Tim
The right to strike is an important one, but the public and private sectors should be treated equally: government should ensure that when unions ballot members simultaneously, ballots are counted separately by employers.
Leunig, Tim
The rise in global gas prices is being passed on disproportionately to the poor by utility companies.
Leunig, Tim
Working paper
Britannia ruled the waves.
Leunig, Tim
Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain’s continued preference for mule spinning?
Leunig, Tim
Gibrat's Law and the British industrial revolution.
Klein, Alexander; Leunig, Tim
Gibrat’s law and the British industrial revolution.
Klein, Alexander; Leunig, Tim
Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749.
Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick
New answers to old questions: explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913.
Leunig, Tim
Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.
Leunig, Tim
Spinning welfare:the gains from process innovation in cotton and car production.
Leunig, Tim; Voth, Joachim
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Time is money: a re-assessment of the passenger social savings from Victorian British railways.
Leunig, Tim
Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London.
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim
Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century?
Crafts, Nicholas; Leunig, Tim; Mulatu, Abay
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Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century?
Crafts, Nicholas; Leunig, Tim; Mulatu, Abay
