Leunig, Tim

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Article

Leunig, Tim, van Lottum, Jelle, Poulsen, Bo (2018). Surprisingly gentle confinement: British treatment of Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war during the napoleonic wars. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2018.1516235 picture_as_pdf

Stanfors, Maria, Leunig, Tim, Eriksson, Björn, Karlsson, Tobias (2014). Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry. Economic History Review, 67(1), 48-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12017

Leunig, Tim (2013). Understanding the English economy 1381–1869: editor's introduction. Explorations in Economic History, 50(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2012.08.006

Leunig, Tim (2012). The Liberal Democrats and supply-side economics. Economic Affairs, 32(2), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0270.2012.02149.x

Leunig, Tim (2011). Measuring economic performance and social progress. European Review of Economic History, 15(2), 357-363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1361491611000086

Leunig, Tim, Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2011). Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749. Journal of Economic History, 71(2), 413-443. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050711001586

Crafts, Nicholas, Leunig, Tim, Mulatu, Abay (2011). Corrigendum: were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century? Economic History Review, 64(1), 351 - 356. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00559.x

Leunig, Tim (2010). Social savings. Journal of Economic Surveys, 24(5), 775-800. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00636.x

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Tim (2009). Cities, market integration and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth century England and Wales. Economic History Review, 62(2), 458-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00458.x

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Timothy (2009). Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? Explorations in Economic History, 46(1), 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2007.08.001

Crafts, Nicholas, Leunig, Tim, Mulatu, Abay (2008). Were British railway companies well-managed in early twentieth century? Economic History Review, 61(4), 842-866. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00424.x

Leunig, Tim, Overman, Henry G. (2008). Spatial patterns of development and the British housing market. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24(1), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grn004 picture_as_pdf

Leunig, Tim (2006). Time is money: a re-assessment of the passenger social savings from Victorian British railways. Journal of Economic History, 66(3), 635-673. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050706000283

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim (2006). Comment on Oxley’s "Seat of death and terror". Economic History Review, 59(3), 607-616. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00352.x

Leunig, Tim (2004). Turning NIMBYs into IMBYs. Town and Country Planning, 73(12), 357-359.

Leunig, Tim (2003). A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago. Economic History Review, 56(1), 90-117. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00243

Leunig, Tim (2001). New answers to old questions : explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913. Journal of Economic History, 61(2), 439 -466. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050701028078

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim (2001). Smallpox really did reduce height : a reply to Razzell. Economic History Review, 54(1), 110-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00187

Leunig, Tim (1998). The myth of the corporate economy: factor costs, industrial structure and technological choice in the Lancashire and New England cotton textile industries, 1900-1913. Journal of Economic History, 58(2), 528-531. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700020635

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim (1998). Smallpox did reduce height : a reply to our critics. Economic History Review, 51(2), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.00097

Voth, Hans-Joachim, Leunig, Tim (1996). Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873. Economic History Review, 49(3), 541-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1996.tb00581.x

Leunig, Tim (1996). The myth of the corporate economy: Great Britain's cotton textile industry, 1900 - 1913. Business and Economic History, 25(2), 53-67.

Chapter

Leunig, Timothy (2010). Post-Second World War British railways: the unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention. In Margetts, H., 6, P. & Hood, C. (Eds.), Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform (pp. 155-184). Oxford University Press.

Leunig, Tim (2010). Post-world war II British railways: the unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention. In Margetts, H., 6, P. & Hood, C. (Eds.), Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform . Oxford University Press.

Leunig, Tim, Marrison, Andrew, Broadberry, Stephen (2009). Selling English cotton into the world market: implications for the rationalisation debate 1900 - 1939. In Wilson, J. F. (Ed.), King Cotton: a Tribute to Douglas A. Farnie (pp. 39-58). Carnegie Publishing Ltd..

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim (2006). Height and the high life: what future for a tall story? In David, P. A. & Thomas, M. (Eds.), The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (pp. 419-438). Oxford University Press.

Leunig, Tim (2003). Cotton industry: technological change. In Mokyr, J. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. 24-29). Oxford University Press.

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Hans-Joachim (2001). Height and the high life – what future for a tall story? In David, P. A. & Thomas, M. (Eds.), The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (pp. 419-438). Oxford University Press.

Dataset

Leunig, Tim (2010). Speed of Trains in Britain, 1910-2008: Railway Timetables. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-6384-1

Leunig, Tim, Crafts, Nicholas (2005). Railway Timetables on Selected Important and Minor Routes, 1850, 1870, 1887 and 1910. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5234-1

Online resource

Leunig, Tim (2012). How to cut the cost of railways and keep fares down.

Leunig, Tim (2012). 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 (2012). 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 (2012). Water companies should incentivise businesses to use less water and charge households that use high amounts more per unit.

Leunig, Tim (2012). This was a Tory budget from a Tory Chancellor.

Leunig, Tim (2012). 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 (2012). 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 (2012). With one in seven shops now lying empty, high street retail must go where the money is in order to survive.

Leunig, Tim (2012). Reporting dismal times (guest blog).

Leunig, Tim (2012). The proposed benefit cap for those out of work means that government expects people to live on 62p per day.

Leunig, Tim (2012). 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 (2012). It’s official: waivers and bursaries don’t attract students.

Leunig, Tim (2012). 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 (2012). Without a rise in German wages, 2012 may see the beginning of the breakup of the Eurozone.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). Unlocking growth in cities.

Leunig, Tim (2011). Without a greater focus on education, the government’s strategy of transferring more power to cities may struggle to deliver growth.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). National Insurance is complex and pointless and should be merged with income tax.

Leunig, Tim (2011). We need to invest much more in our schools. A better educated Britain is better for employers and for improving social mobility.

Leunig, Tim (2011). George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review has yielded few surprises.

Beckett, Charlie, Cammaerts, Bart, Carrera, Leandro N., Leunig, Tim (2011). All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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.

Ball, Michael, Barker, Kate, Cheshire, Paul, Evans, Alan, Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa, Gordon, Ian R., Holman, Nancy, Leunig, Tim, Mace, Alan & Meen, Geoff et al (2011). 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.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). Labour’s proposed tuition fees cap does not change the fact that most graduates will never earn enough to repay their loans.

Leunig, Tim (2011). When planning for new housing developments, we must make sure they are built where people actually want to live.

Leunig, Tim (2011). Location matters: putting people first in planning.

Leunig, Tim (2011). The rise in global gas prices is being passed on disproportionately to the poor by utility companies.

Leunig, Tim (2011). What "FOREVER 21" means to spatial economists.

Leunig, Tim (2011). Conditional discharges for looters that come forward would be a first step towards community reconciliation in the wake of the recent riots.

Leunig, Tim (2011). Poor pupil performance is more about poverty than school quality. We must ensure our schools work for poor children in all places.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). The Office of Fair Access has failed: university fees have been allowed to rise too high and are disproportionate to graduate incomes.

Leunig, Tim (2011). The News International phone-hacking saga threatens to retoxify the Tory brand. Cameron needs to be ruthless to save his reputation.

Leunig, Tim (2011). The Higher Education White Paper is a good start at introducing real competition between universities for academic places.

Leunig, Tim (2011). Abolishing quotas for students with high A level grades will not drive down university fees.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). 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 (2011). Budget 2011: Fiscally neutral, and some ‘radical’ planning changes, but the devil is definitely in the detail.

Leunig, Tim (2011). 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 (2011). Only competitive tension will keep student fees down – it is time to quit the quotas.

Hills, John, Wehner, Joachim, Dunleavy, Patrick, Cammaerts, Bart, Leunig, Tim (2010). The ‘emergency’ budget – solving the UK’s problems?: or creating the basis for new crises?

Bouçek, Françoise, Jones, George W., Wilks-Heeg, Stuart, Travers, Tony, Beckett, Charlie, Hosein, Gus, Carrera, Leandro N., Leunig, Tim (2010). LSE election experts reflect on the election result.

Jones, George W., Bouçek, Francoise, Hagemann, Sara, Leunig, Tim, Carrera, Leandro N. (2010). Eve of the election: reflections from election experts.

Leunig, Tim (2010). Third debate – economic affairs: what our experts said.

Leunig, Tim (2010). Hard choices in UK public policy – railways.

Working paper

Klein, Alexander, Leunig, Tim (2015). Gibrat’s law and the British industrial revolution. (Economic History working paper series 221/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.

Klein, Alexander, Leunig, Tim (2013). Gibrat's Law and the British industrial revolution. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP0140). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim, Voth, Joachim (2011). Spinning welfare: the gains from process innovation in cotton and car production. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1050). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Crafts, Nicholas, Leunig, Tim, Mulatu, Abay (2010). Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century? (Economic History Working Papers 137/10). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf

Leunig, Tim, Minns, Chris, Wallis, Patrick (2009). Networks in the premodern economy: the market for London apprenticeships, 1600-1749. (CEP Discussion Paper 956). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.

Crafts, Nicholas, Leunig, Tim, Mulatu, Abay (2007). Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century? (Working papers in large-scale technological change 10/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Humphries, Jane, Leunig, Tim (2007). Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London. (Economic History Working Papers 101/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim (2005). Time is money: a re-assessment of the passenger social savings from Victorian British railways. (Working papers in large-scale technological change 09/05). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim (2003). Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago. (Economic History Working Papers 72/03). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim (2002). Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain’s continued preference for mule spinning? (Economic History Working Papers 69/02). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim (2001). Britannia ruled the waves. (Economic History Working Papers 66/01). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leunig, Tim (2000). New answers to old questions: explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913. (Economic History Working Papers 60/00). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.